The highest peak of Russia’s Urals, Narodnaya has two versions concerning the origin of its name. According to one, the first expedition in 1927 named the mount “The People’s Mountain” to ...

In 1954, the researchers published a map showing an underwater mountain range, ... Russia, though, has not been as bold in its submission to the UN as it could have.

Sergey Nefedov, Alexey Romanov and Max Sotnik have established three new routes in the Khibini mountain range in Russia's Murmansk region. At the end of February 2012 Nefedov from Saint Petersburg, ...

However, several mountain ranges —including the Appalachian Mountains in the United States and the Ural Mountains in Russia —have survived for several hundred million years, despite ...

Elevation map of ancient topography in the southern Ural Mountains in Russia. (Image credit: David Lundbek Egholm) Landslides, or the lack thereof, may help mountain ranges remain far longer than ...

With chaos and geopolitical challenges in Russia, climbing one of the renowned Seven Summits is largely on hold. Mt. Elbrus, which stands 18,510 ft., is the highest mountain in Europe and one of ...

Krasnaya Polyana is Russia’s answer to Vail or Aspen. It’s the country’s preeminent ski town with three ski complexes, plenty of hotels, and a preponderance of snow. It also happened to be ...