2025年1月24日 · The Steppe, belt of grassland that extends 5,000 miles (8,000 km) from Hungary in the west through Ukraine and Central Asia to Manchuria in the east. Mountain ranges interrupt the steppe, but horsemen could cross barriers easily and …

2024年11月26日 · The Russian name for such forests is taiga, as steppe is the Russian word for grasslands; and it is convenient to use these terms to describe the two zones of vegetation that set narrow limits on human life in northern Eurasia even today.

2024年12月4日 · steppe, vast grassland, devoid of trees and with little diversity in vegetation, receiving around 25 to 30 cm (10 to 12 inches) of rain per year. The word “steppe” is derived from the Russian word for “flat grassy plain.”

Kulunda Steppe, lowland constituting the extreme southern extension of the West Siberian Plain. Most of the steppe lies in Russia, but its western part extends into Kazakhstan. Roughly triangular in shape, with its point to the south, it covers an area of approximately 39,000 square miles (100,000 square km).

2024年11月26日 · The Steppe - Pastoralism, Herding, Nomads: The earliest human occupants of the Eurasian Steppe seem not to have differed very much from neighbours living in wooded landscapes. As elsewhere in Eurasia, hunters and gatherers using Paleolithic tools and weapons were succeeded on the steppes by Neolithic farmers who raised grain, kept domesticated ...

2025年1月31日 · It extends across the whole of northern Asia and the eastern third of Europe, spanning 11 time zones and incorporating a great range of environments and landforms, from deserts to semiarid steppes to deep forests and Arctic tundra. Russia contains Europe’s longest river, the Volga, and its largest lake, Ladoga.

Elista, city, capital of Kalmykia republic, southwestern Russia. It was founded in 1865 and became a city in 1930. In 1944, when the Kalmyks were exiled by Joseph Stalin for their alleged collaboration with the Germans, the republic was dissolved and the city became known as Stepnoy (“Steppe”).

2025年1月29日 · Ukraine - Forests, Steppes, Fauna: Though much of Ukraine’s original plant cover has been cleared for cultivation, three main zones of natural vegetation are still distinguishable. From north to south, they are the Polissya (woodland and marsh), the forest-steppe, and the steppe.

The upland is also called Saryarqa (“Yellow Range”) because of the colour of the sun-scorched vegetation, which is mainly fescue and feather-grass steppe in the north and of the semidesert variety in the south.

Volga River, river of Europe, the continent’s longest, and the principal waterway of western Russia and the historic cradle of the Russian state. Its basin, sprawling across about two-fifths of the European part of Russia, contains almost half of the entire population of the Russian Republic.