A cycle of films about physical and geographical countries. So scientists call dissimilar territories that were formed during the geological history of the Earth. There are thirteen of them in Russia. Each has its own geological structure, relief features, and hence the special natural conditions that determine its originality.
The Ural Mountains are the border between Europe and Asia. The time of their formation is two hundred fifty - three hundred million years ago.
They are one of the most ancient on the planet. Many mountains of this age have already turned into plains, but the Urals are standing.
The Ural Range is one of the largest watersheds on the continent. The waters from its eastern slopes fill the Siberian rivers. From the western slopes - the rivers of the East European Plain. But there is one river that has cut its way through the divide. It starts in Asia and ends in Europe. This is the Chusovaya River.
Not far from the middle course of the river is the Basegi mountain range. Over the centuries, the entire taiga in the Urals has been cut down. Only around the Basegi ridge there was a section of virgin taiga or parma, as it is called in the Urals.