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'''Kyiv Mountains''' or '''Kyiv Hills''' ('''Kiev Mountains''' or '''Kiev Hills''', | |||
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Kyiv Mountains or Kyiv Hills (Kiev Mountains or Kiev Hills, Template:Lang-uk) is a term used in journalism and literature for hills and highlands around the city of Kiev that range from approximately 150 to almost 200 meters. The city of Kiev is located within borders of three orographic regions: Dnieper Upland (Cisdnieper Upland) and Polesian and Dnieper lowlands. The hills are located in northern part of the Kiev plateau where the Dnieper Upland slopes down towards the Dnieper river valley and the Kiev Polesia. The highest marks recorded in central and southwestern parts of the city (within the Dnieper Upland, particularly the Kiev plateau).
Kiev plateau
The Kiev plateau as a geologic creation presents itself as a rolling meadow plain dissected with ravines and gulches. According to the physiographic categorization the given territory is part of the Obukhiv-Vasylkiv section of forest steppe. The plateau stretches along the right bank of Dnieper from Kiev to Kaniv where a complex of other hills compose a landscape feature known as Kaniv Mountains.
At the heart of the upland lay Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleogene, Neogene and Quaternary deposits that are covered with a thick layer of loess on which formed gray and lightly gray limed silt of light loam. Creation of the loess hills of Dnieper region is connected with withdrawal of the last Great Sea basin, the Kharkiv Sea.
General description
The highest elevation of the Kiev Mountains is an upland that corresponds to historic city neighborhood Pechersk (Caves). Sometimes it is referred to as Pechersk Hills or Pechersk Elevation. The highest elevated location of the upland is situated at Lypky and known as Levashov Hill (after the General Governor Vasiliy Levashov). Its maximum height is 196.8 m (646 ft). The same height is also recorded at a small area near the Kiev Metro station Arsenalna. Somewhat lower marks are in front of the Verkhovna Rada building (Constitution Square) – 195 m (640 ft). Considering that the absolute water level in Dnieper is recorded at 91.5 m (300 ft), the upland rises over the river some 100 meters.
External links
- Kiev Mountains at the "Kiev. Encyclopedic handbook".
- Parnikoza, I. Lysa Hora (Barren Hill), a tract in the flow of time. myslenedrevo.com.ua
50°26′48″N 30°31′20″E / 50.446793°N 30.522282°E / 50.446793; 30.522282
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