Azov Upland

Plateau in Donetsk and Zaporizhia Oblasts, Ukraine
Hill "Kamyana Mohyla"

Azov Upland is a plateau or range of hills in East Ukraine within the Donetsk and Zaporizhia oblasts.

To the north it borders Dnieper Lowland, to northeast – Donets Ridge, southwest – Black Sea Lowland, south – Azov Lowland. Elevation varies between 200–250 m (660–820 ft).

Interesting features are mounds locally known as mohyly similar to Russian equivalent of kurgan. The highest hill is Belmak-Mohyla (Horyla) that rises at 327 m (1,073 ft).

The climate is similar to Donets Ridge. Soils are categorized as chernozem of poor or medium humus. Vegetation is a fescue-feather-grass steppe.

References

External links

  • Azov Upland at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
  • Azov Upland at the Encyclopædia Britannica
  • Azov Upland at the Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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Geographic regions of Ukraine
Geography of Ukraine
East
European
Plain
Volhynian Upland
  • Sokal Hills
  • Bug River Upland
  • Horokhiv Upland
  • Povcha Upland
  • Rivne Plateau
  • Hoshcha Plateau
  • Mizoch Ridge
  • Shepetivka Plain
  • Volhynian Hills
  • Hrubieszow Valley
Podolian Upland
  • Lviv Plateau
  • Peremyshlyany Low Mountains
  • Opillia
  • Holohory-Kremenets Ridge
    • Holohory
    • Voronyaky
    • Kremenets Ridge
  • Avratyn Upland
  • Tovtry
    • Medobory
    • Pruth-Dniester Tovtry
    • Murafa Tovtry
  • Dniester Upland
  • Roztochia
Dnieper Upland
Polesian Lowland
  • Ovruch Ridge
  • Bilokorovych Ridge
  • Ozeryany Ridge
  • Turiysk Plain
  • Klesiv Plain
  • Kostopil Plain
Sian–Dniester Plain
Small Polesia Plain
  • Bug Depression
    • Bug Hill Ridge
  • Brody Plain
  • Ostroh Valley
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Ukrainian
Carpathians
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  • Drohobych Upland
  • Upper Dniester Valley
  • Kalush Valley
  • Voinyliv Valley
  • Stanislaviv Valley
  • Pokuttia Valley
  • Bukovinian Subcarpathians
    • Chernivtsi Upland
    • Storozhynets Plateau

47°19′53″N 36°34′45″E / 47.3315°N 36.5791°E / 47.3315; 36.5791


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