Ural Federal District (Russia(1))--part: Chelyabinsk(2) and Kurgan Oblasts

How is the land laid out?

Three geophysical zones

Two sections of the Ural Mountains are found here: the low center(3) and the wide and taller south(4). Chelyabinsk Oblast straddles part of the southern central section and includes part of the eastern slopes of the southern section.

East of these last slopes is the northwest of the Turgay Plateau.

East of the Urals and northeast of the plateau lie the West Siberian Lowland.

Chief of the rivers locally is the Tobol, which bisects Kurgan Oblast, coming from Kazakhstan(5) and going to Tyumen(6) Oblast.

Who lives there?

More than four million people live here, and nearly 17 in every 20 of them speak Russian as their first language. Probably most of the others learn it. More than two in every 20 speak a miscellany of languages, and the remaining one in 20 speak Tatar.

Tatar and religions

There is one city here of over a million: Chelyabinsk.

Who was there before?

Russian conquest

Uralic peoples

north of Chelyabinsk Oblast, and north and east of Kurgan Oblast
south of Kurgan Oblast, and southeast of Chelyabinsk Oblast
southwest of Chelyabinsk Oblast
west of Chelyabinsk Oblast

Other broad topics

Ural Federal District

Footnotes

(1) More strictly transliterated from Russian as Rossija or Rossiya.
(2) Or Cel'abinsk, with a diacritical on the c, in an alternate transliteration from Russian.
(3) 'North' in transliterated Russian is severnyy or severnyj.
(4) 'Center' in transliterated Russian is seredniy or serednij.
(5) More strictly transliterated as Qazaqstan or Kazakstan.
(6) T'umen is an alternate transliteration from Russian.