Английская Википедия:Belarusian Ridge

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Belarusian Ridge on a European map

The Belarusian Ridge (Шаблон:Lang-be) is a line of terminal moraines, which is almost entirely in the northwest of Belarus. The feature is part of the East European Plain.

This ridge, consisting of low, rolling hills, runs for about 500 km in the direction from west-southwest to east-northeast, from the area of the Brest region, which is close to the border of Poland to the Russian town of Smolensk.[1]

The ridge is a limit of the last advance of the ice sheet,[2] which defines its geological constitution: mostly moraine loams with added glacial and alluvial sediments.[1]

River valleys divide the ridge into sections, uplands.[2]

The ridge stretches approximately from west to east and separated two major lowlands: Polesie Lowland to the south and Шаблон:Ill and Шаблон:Ill to the north.[2]

Features within Belarus

The highest elevation of the ridge (and the whole Belarus) is Mount Dzyarzhynskaya, 365m.

Features elsewhere

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Wzgórza Sokólskie
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Geostrategic map of Central Europe with Smolensk Gate (Brama Smolenska) marked in the center

The part of the Шаблон:Ill within Poland is called Wzgórza Sokólskie, of area about 1,300sq.km.

A small patch in the north belongs to Lithuania

To the east it connects to the Smolensk–Moscow Upland, Russia via a narrow corridor called the Шаблон:Ill between swampy areas of Dnieper and Dzwina river systems, of strategic military significance.[3]

References

Шаблон:Reflist

Шаблон:Coord