How Did The Ural Mountains And Its Impact On Russian Culture

Russia is a country with many large land masses that are greatly dependent on and helped shape the culture in Russia today. Russia is filled with rivers and mountains that protect them from invasions and help aid in trade. The Dnieper River and the Ural Mountains had a major impact on the development of Russia, as they impacted Russian both positively and negatively. For example, a positive effect of the Dnieper River is that it aided in trade with different civilizations, and the Ural Mountains protected Russia from being invaded by outside forces. Russia is the largest country in the world, so large that it has 11 times zones, the only climate that it does not contain is a tropical one (Russia). Russia’s climate is so unbearably cold that the most northern part is considered a tundra, (Gullad and Dejevsky 16). Russia has many different mountains and land masses that helped shape it into the country that it is today; these things also played a large part in the history of Russia. Russia was founded by the vikings in 882 AD, but it was then known as Kievan Rus (Lecture). The vikings used all the of natural resources the land

The Ural Mountains greatly affect the climate of Siberia, they stop the oncoming winds making Siberia very cold and dry, (Facts About the Ural Mountains, Boundary Between Russia and Asia). Because Siberia is so cold and dry, it is an unpleasant to reside in and almost impossible to farm the land. The Ural Mountains also encourage flooding after a rainfall or storm, this causes Russia to suffer immensely with the floods that happen each year, (Russian Migration). When the Mongols invaded Russia, the Ural Mountains did not offer any protection, (Wood 421). There was an interruption of Russian forces over its land when the Mongolians interfered, but after 3 years, Russia was under its own rule again. These are some of the ways that the Ural Mountains negatively affected