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Ural River

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Ural River

River, Russia and Kazakhstan. Rising at the southern end of the Ural Mountains, it flows southwest to cross through western Kazakhstan to the Caspian Sea at Atyrau. It is 1,509 mi (2,428 km) long and drains an area of 91,500 sq mi (237,000 sq km). Its lower course is navigable.



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Geographers divide the two continents along a line formed by the Ural Mountains, Ural River, Caspian Sea, and Caucasus Mountains.
The Background: Atyrau province in the west is where oil has been produced since 1911 - with Atyrau town split in two by the Ural River which divides Asia and Europe.
Towards the end of World War II, the Soviets built the Atyrau refinery on the bank of Ural River, not far from the Caspian Sea (see Downstream Trends of next week).
 
 
 
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