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Moscow Uplands

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55°38′N 34°36′E  /  55.64°N 34.60°E  / 55.64; 34.60

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3-710: Moscow Upland is the eastern part of the Smolensk-Moscow Upland , located inside the Moscow (Klin-Dmitrov Ridge) and Vladimir (Yuryevo Opole) regions of Russia . Extends from the headwaters of Moscow and to the headwaters of the river Vorya Koloksha . The greatest height - 310 meters Relief - erosion and moraine. The hill is covered with mixed forests (major tree species - pine, birch and aspen). 57°30′00″N 37°12′00″E  /  57.5000°N 37.2000°E  / 57.5000; 37.2000 Smolensk-Moscow Upland The Smolensk–Moscow Upland

6-803: Is hilly, erosion- moraine . In the west the moraine chain goes to the Belarusian ridge . The Dnieper (west) and the Volga (east) rivers drain its hill. The watersheds feed three seas: the Baltic (Kasplya → Western Dvina), Black (Dnieper) and the Caspian (the Volga, the Oka River and their tributaries). It is covered with mixed forests, dominated by spruce and birch . Peat bogs are also present. Its soils are mainly sod- podzolic , loamy , except for

9-660: Is located in the Yaroslavl , Vladimir , Moscow and Smolensk regions of Russia, as well as the Vitebsk region of Belarus . It stretches from southwest to northeast from the Belarusian city of Orsha to Yuriev-Polsky . It consists of the Smolensk Upland (western part) and the Moscow Uplands (eastern part). It extends 500 km. Its highest point is 320 m (northeastern part of Smolensk). The terrain

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