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Topic: East European Plain

	Scholastic News: After the Cold War
		The Russian Plain is separated from the West Siberian Plain by the Ural Mountains, which form part of the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia.
		In the east, the land rises to the Central Siberian Plateau and the uplands and mountains of East Siberia.
		Farther east are the mountains of the East Siberian Uplands and the varied terrain of the Pacific coastal region.
	teacher.scholastic.com /scholasticnews/indepth/cold_war/land_rus.asp (1294 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		They consist of the low plains between the Central European Highlands to the south and the North Sea and the Baltic Sea to the north; their elevation is between 0 and 200 m (about 0 and 650 ft).
		The Northern European Lowlands are connected to East European Plain, which includes large plains of Russia, bounded to the east by the Ural Mountains.
		The plain is sandy by the shoreline, and inland it is marked by bogs and heathlands.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Northern_European_Lowlands (385 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The East European Plain (also Eastern-European Lowland, Eastern European Lowlands, Eastern European Plain, and Russian Plain) is a plain and series of broad river basins in Eastern Europe.
		It is bounded by the White Sea and the Barents Sea in the North, Ural Mountains, Ural River and Caspian Sea in the East, Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea in the South, Carpathian Mountains and other mountainous features in Poland in the West.
		The plain is subdivided into a number of distinct regions, including the Valday Hills; the Central Russian Upland; the Volga Uplands; and the Dnieper River, Black Sea, and Caspian Sea lowlands.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=East_European_Plain (212 words)

	The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
		Further to the east, Ukraine is characterized by steppe-a flat and comparatively dry region with short grasses.
		The average annual growth rate for the European population during the 1980s was only about 0.3%; by comparison, in the same period, the population of Asia grew by about 1.8% per year and that of North America by about 0.9% annually.
		Europeans generally enjoy some of the longest average life expectancies at birth: 75 years in most countries, compared with less than 60 years in India and most countries of Africa.
	www.grida.no /Climate/ipcc/regional/094.htm (806 words)

	Land Resources of Russia
		Annual isotherms are turned (deviated) to the south, especially intensively in East Siberia, thus reflecting the lower temperature of the continent in comparison with the ocean on the average for a year.
		The frostfree period shortens from the west to the east owing to the weakening of the cyclonic activity and the respective reduction of cloudiness.
		Everywhere in East Siberia to the south of the tundra it exceeds 100 mm, and in Central Yakutiya it reaches 200 mm, i.e., the values typical for the forest-steppe.
	www.iiasa.ac.at /Research/FOR/russia_cd/clim_des.htm (5398 words)

	Early East Slavs - Definition, explanation
		Based on archaeological and linguistic evidence, historians theorize that the Slavs formed as an ethnic group in the middle of 2nd millennium BC in the area that is now split between Poland, Czech republic, Slovakia, western Belarus and northwestern Ukraine.
		By the 6th century, the Slavs were the dominant ethnic group on the East European Plain.
		The East Slavs settled along the Dnieper river in what is now Ukraine; they then spread northward to the northern Volga valley, east of modern-day Moscow and westward to the basins of the northern Dnestr and the Western Bug rivers in present-day Moldova and southern Ukraine.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/e/ea/early_east_slavs.php (645 words)

	Latvia - MSN Encarta
		It is bounded on the west by the Baltic Sea, on the north by Estonia and the Gulf of Rīga (a deep inlet of the Baltic Sea), on the east by Russia, and on the south by Belarus and Lithuania.
		The country’s low-lying plains and rolling hills were sculpted during the most recent ice age, when glaciers moved over the land (see Pleistocene Epoch).
		Latvia is a land of numerous rivers, lakes, and wetlands.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577313/Latvia.html (770 words)

	From The Encyclopedia Britannica
		North European Plain, and southward in the Romanian, Bulgarian, and Hungarian plains.
		East European Plain the rivers are long and flow sluggishly to five seas.
		The central European, or transitional, type of climate results from the interaction of both maritime and continental air masses and is found at the core of Europe, south and east of the maritime type, west of the much larger continental type, and north of the Mediterranean type.
	www.geography.uc.edu /~weisner/courses/216/britannica.html (6497 words)

	The Russian Plain (from Russia) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The plain is subdivided into a number of distinct regions, including the Valday Hills; the Central Russian Uplands; the Volga Uplands; and the Dnieper River, Black Sea, and...
		The term Russian literature is used to describe the literature of different areas at different periods, from the loose confederation of East Slavic tribes known as Kievan Rus that originated in the 10th century to the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union to present-day Russia.
		Today it is called the Great Plains, a high plateau of grassland stretching from the Rio Grande in the south to the delta where the MacKenzie River enters the Arctic Ocean in the north.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-38576 (865 words)

	MAIN RESULTS OF CLASSIFICATION OF SUMMER BIRD POPULATION OF THE NORTH EURASIAN PLAINS / ON THE MATERIALS OF DATA BANK ...
		As a whole for both plains the division into subtypes coincides with subzonal-regional differences and afforestation, and division into classes is characterized by more fragmental subzonal differences and only the lowest taxa are classified in association with the dominated forest-forming species composition.
		Types, that according to the European data were considered as the tundra type of bird community, are combined with Siberian forest-tundra and southern part of Siberian tundra types and represents a single forest tundra type of ornithocomplexes.
		In East Europe and West Siberia according to the regional classification the southern boundary of the tundra type almost unambiguously lies between the northern and southern (shrubby) tundra.
	eco.nsc.ru /Zoomonit/u_klc3.html (1657 words)

	Encyclopedia article: Early East Slavs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The East Slavs are the ethnic group that evolved into the Russian (A native or inhabitant of Russia), Ukrainian (The Slavic language spoken in the Ukraine) and Belarusian (The Slavic language spoken in Belarus) peoples.
		The best known of these groups were the nomadic Scythians (The Iranian language spoken by the ancient Scythians), who occupied the region of modern Ukraine and southwestern Russia from about the 6th century BC to the 2nd century BC and whose skill in warfare and horsemanship is legendary.
		By the 6th century (additional info and facts about 6th century), the Slavs were the dominant ethnic group on the East European Plain.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ea/early_east_slavs.htm (524 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Geography of Germany
		Germany is a large country in Central Europe, stretching from the Alps, across the North European Plain to the North Sea (Nordsee) and the Baltic Sea (Ostsee).
		At its widest, Germany measures approximately 650 kilometers from the Belgian-German border in the west to the Polish frontier in the east.
		After a close vote, in 1993 the Bundestag, the lower house of Germany's parliament, voted to transfer the capital from Bonn in the west to Berlin, a city-state in the east surrounded by the Land of Brandenburg.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Geography-of-Germany (286 words)

	Russia's Geography - General Description
		Though immense in territory, nearly 70% of Russia consists of broad plains and steppes.
		In western Russia, the East European Plain includes the low Valdai, Central Russian, and Volga Hills as well as the OkaDon and Caspian Lowlands.
		Beyond the Urals to the east lies the broad and flat West Siberian Plain, a vast expanse of marshy lowlands.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Jta/Ru/RuGEO0.htm (258 words)

	Early East Slavs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By the 6th century, the Slavs were the dominant ethnic group on the East European Plain.
		The East Slavs settled along the Dnieper river in what is now Ukraine; they then spread northward to the northern Volga valley, east of modern-day Moscow and westward to the basins of the northern Dniester and the Western Bug rivers in present-day Moldova and southern Ukraine.
		In the eighth and ninth centuries, some East Slavic tribes had to pay tribute to the Khazars, a Turkic-speaking people who adopted Judaism in the late eighth or ninth century and lived in the southern Volga and Caucasus regions.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Early_East_Slavs (734 words)

	NRC Template
		In Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and especially East Germany (where the existing institutions for technical education were already well developed, especially at the higher levels) the Communists used these assets in their plans for modernization.
		In the Eastern European bloc, one of the most important weaknesses of the Communist education policy was the centralized nature of its allocative distribution powers.
		Even with European markets pressuring Eastern Europe in regard to the need for better training in managerial, business, and high-tech skills, curriculum reformers are driven by the desire to offer more humanities courses and fewer science courses in primary and secondary schools.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~nrc/teacherresources/civic/eklof.htm (9324 words)

	Peace Corps \| World Wise Schools \| Lesson Plans \| Teacher Guides \| Lithuania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is bound by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the southwest, Kaliningrad OBlast (a Russian territory) to the southwest, and the Baltic Sea to the west.
		To the east of the coastal plain lies the Zemaiciu Upland, which rises to a height of 234 meters at Medvgalis.
		In 1569, to counter the threat from the east, Lithuania united with Poland in the Union of Lublin, creating a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth headed by a single king who was elected by the nobility of both nations.
	www.peacecorps.gov /wws/guides/lithuania/lithoverview.html (3124 words)

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		The land border, in comparison, is mere 633 km, of which 339 km is shared with Latvia in the south and 294 km with Russia in the east.
		The coast varies from the sheer limestone cliff in the North to sandy beaches and shelving coastal meadows in the West.
		The undulating till plains of the Sakala Upland, the wooded moraine hills of the Otepää (217 m), Karula (137 m) and Haanja Heights with numerous lakes and rivers lend the scene picturesque mildness.
	www.activity.ee /?go=estonia (1702 words)

	1Up Travel : Russia Geography and Facts
		To the east of the Urals is the West Siberian Plain, which covers more than 2.5 million square kilometers, stretching about 1,900 kilometers from west to east and about 2,400 kilometers from north to south.
		The mountain systems east of Lake Baikal are lower, forming a complex of minor ranges and valleys that reaches from the lake to the Pacific coast.
		Thus, average January temperatures are -8°C in St. Petersburg, -27°C in the West Siberian Plain, and -43°C at Yakutsk (in east-central Siberia, at approximately the same latitude as St. Petersburg), while the winter average on the Mongolian border, whose latitude is some 10° farther south, is barely warmer.
	www.1uptravel.com /geography/russia1.html (3178 words)

	European Russia Information
		European Russia refer to the western areas of Russia that lie within Europe.
		Traditionally the border of Europe is the Ural mountains, but this definition of the geography of Europe is a subject of debate.
		In the time of the Russian Empire, the term "European Russia" was used in the Empire to refer to traditional East Slavic territories under Russian control, including modern Belarus and most of Ukraine (Dnieper Ukraine).
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/European_Russia (103 words)

	european russia map and information page
		European Russia is the mass of Russian land west of the Ural Mountains It's indicated above in a medium shade of green, fronting Europe.
		Landforms The broad European Plain, or Volga River Plain extends from the Ural Mountains to its western borders.
		Siberia is a combination of frozen tundra, with rolling hills rising to plateaus, and numerous rugged mountain ranges.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/europe/eur.htm (636 words)

	Russia - Topography and Drainage
		The traditional dividing line between the east and the west is the Yenisey Valley.
		Altogether, 84 percent of Russia's surface water is located east of the Urals in rivers flowing through sparsely populated territory and into the Arctic and Pacific oceans.
		Numerous smaller lakes dot the northern regions of the European and Siberian plains.
	countrystudies.us /russia/23.htm (1964 words)

	Russia - History
		Yaroslav promulgated the first East Slavic law code, Rus'ka pravda (Justice of Rus'); built cathedrals named for St. Sophia in Kiev and Novgorod; patronized local clergy and monasticism; and is said to have founded a school system.
		Because the East Slavs learned neither Greek nor Latin, they were isolated from Byzantine culture as well as from the European cultures of their neighbors to the west.
		In its political structure and mercantile activities, Novgorod resembled the north European towns of the Hanseatic League, the prosperous alliance that dominated the commercial activity of the Baltic region between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries, more than the other principalities of Kievan Rus'.
	countrystudies.us /russia/2.htm (2042 words)

	Russia - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the west lies the East European Plain which includes the low Valdai, Central Russian and Volga Hills as well as the Oka-Don and Caspian Lowlands.
		The north to south Ural Ranges, which have an average elevation of between 800 and 1,200 metres (2,625 and 3,937 feet), marks the eastern boundary of the East European Plain.
		The climate of East Siberia is severely continental while the northern areas have an arctic climate.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/russia.htm (2803 words)

	Romania Real Estate & Property Investment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Romania's geographic situation in the southeastern portion of the European continent gives it a climate that is transitional between temperate regions and the harsher extremes of the continental interior.
		In the centre and west, humid Atlantic climatic characteristics prevail; in the southeast the continental influences of the East European Plain make themselves felt; and in the extreme southeast there are even milder sub-Mediterranean influences.
		In winter, cold and dense air masses encircle the eastern portions of the nation, with the cold northeasterly known as the crivat blowing in from the East European Plain, while oceanic air masses from the Azores, in the west, bring rain and mitigate the severity of the cold.
	www.factbook.net /climate.php (272 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		In plain terms, this means that, under the current political conditions, Ukraine does not possess an independent and impartial investigative branch.
		European policymakers, however, are incensed at the assumption that Ukraine's economic and democratic failures should be ignored in the face of what Council of Europe rapporteurs have referred to as "Ukraine's geopolitical bluff." Europe is very close to giving up altogether on Ukraine and its potential to take seriously its nationbuilding premise of European orientation.
		From this perspective, the project of European integration is presented as a return by the nation to its natural roots and as an end to centuries of Russian political domination.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol10num2_3/focus/arel.html (2802 words)

	Estonian Nature
		As a part of the East-European Plain, Estonia is characterised by a flat surface topography: over 60 per cent of the country’s territory lies at an absolute height of 0 to 50 metres and only one tenth has an elevation over 100 metres above sea level.
		Another interesting community is the one amongst large reed plains on the western coast and islands where coots, bitterns, water rails, etc. are common.
		The European beaver, hunted to extinction by 1871, was reintroduced in 1950s and a vital population of about 9 000 animals exists once again in Estonia.
	einst.ee /publications/nature (3977 words)

	Russian Eastern Europe, Eastern European, Eastern Europeans of Russia, Russian and East European studies, East European ...
		By A.D. 600, the Slavs were the dominant ethnic group on the East European Plain.
		Little is known of the origin of the Slavs.
		In the eighth and ninth centuries, many East Slavic tribes paid tribute to the Khazars, a Turkic-speaking people who adopted Judaism about A.D. 740 and lived in the southern Volga and Caucasus regions.
	www.russiansabroad.com /russian_history_17.html (266 words)

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