Undor Mountains - a hill in the Ulyanovsk Region , on the right bank of the Volga River , bounded by the Sviyaga River in the west, Volga in the east, the village of Undory in the north, the city of Ulyanovsk in the south [1] . Named after the village of Undory . The location varies: in some sources Gorodishchensky mountains are also distinguished. [2]
| Undor Mountains | |
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| Highest point | |
| Highest point | 238 m |
| Location | |
| A country |
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| The subject of the Russian Federation | Ulyanovsk region |
Deposits of oil shale [3] . In the Undor Mountains, a large number of fossils of fish and marine dinosaurs are found [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Republic of Tatarstan. General geographic maps of the Russian Federation. Federal Service of Geodesy and Cartography of Russia, 1994
- ↑ Volga // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ Kazan - Ulyanovsk (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment January 12, 2012. Archived August 23, 2011.
- ↑ Undor Mountains - My articles - Catalog of articles - Traveling to Russia (Inaccessible link - history ) .
Literature
- Undor Mountains // Uzhi - Fidel. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1956. - P. 233. - ( Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 51 vols.] / Ch. Ed. B. A. Vvedensky ; 1949-1958, vol. 44).