Today we will meet and give a description of the EGP of the European North. The first thing we will pay attention to is the presence of world famous monuments. Kizhi is a cultural monument built between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This world famous place is located on the eponymous island of Lake Onega - Kizhi. This ensemble consists of churches and bell towers of incredible beauty.
Few people know about the island of Valaam, and this place in Lake Ladoga is fraught with yet another monument, only this time - a monument of Russian architecture. It's about a man’s monastery.
I would like to single out another place before moving on to the EGP of the European North. The monument located on the territory of our boundless country is Kivach. This is one of the largest flat waterfalls, a natural monument of Russia, which has a height of about eleven meters.
This small retreat here is not in vain, it is a reminder that our country is so large and beautiful that life will not be enough to get to know all its corners. So, we propose to consider the EGP of the European North with the composition of this region, let's start now.
Structure
The following republics belong to this region: Karelia and Komi, autonomous okrugs: Arkhangelsk and Nenets, regions: Murmansk and Vologda. Considering the EGP of the European North of Russia, namely the composition of the north of our country, many cities are excluded from the list. Speaking of the North of Russia, they do not mean location, but rather a historical and cultural concept. There are no unambiguous borders, it is impossible to say for sure whether this or that place belongs to the North, since its territory is not generally accepted. Many Pskov and Novgorod regions are attributed to the European North. There are cases when autonomous districts are deleted from the list.
Many may have a question about why the Pskov region belongs to the North of Russia, and St. Petersburg does not, although the second object is located north of the first. Everything is explained by the fact that Peter is the personification of the Western beginning in Russian history, and we have already mentioned that geographical location plays an insignificant role in this concept.
Climate
Let's consider some more features of EGP of the European North. Let's talk a little more about the climate of this region. Since Arctic respiration prevails in the European North of Russia, it is cold most of the year in these regions, summers are short and not hot. Many days of snowstorms and snowstorms are possible. The winds that come from the Arctic Ocean are very dry and cold, it is they who form this not very comfortable climate.
Let us consider separately the climate of the Vologda region, the Arkhangelsk region and Komi. As for the first one on our list, the winter here is very cold and harsh, temperatures below minus forty degrees are not uncommon. Summer is moderately warm. We can say that the climate is not stable, air masses from the northeast bring cold, and tropical summers can cause a really sultry day.
Arkhangelsk region is a territory where the climate is humid and rather cool. Even at the beginning of summer there can be night frosts, and the north of the region is considered to be the Arctic, where in the winter it’s a polar night, and in the summer it’s a polar day.
As for Komi, it’s a little more complicated. Winter is very long and cold, the temperature can drop below minus fifty degrees. Summer is very short and cool, night frosts are possible at the beginning and end of the season. In winter, snowdrifts reach a meter high. When the grass turns green in the southern part of the Komi Republic, then in the northern there can be frosts up to minus thirty degrees. The western part is slightly warmer than the eastern one, since the air masses of the Atlantic flows prevail in the first.
Natural resources
The characteristic of the EGP of the European North also involves the analysis of the availability of natural resources. So, the European North is our gold mine, it is on the territory of these regions that the main reserves of resources are concentrated:
- water;
- fuel;
- forest;
- mining chemical;
- non-ferrous metallurgy;
- building materials;
- ferrous metallurgy.
Household
The next point that should be raised when considering the EGP of the European North is the economy of the regions of this territory. We will list those that are most developed:
- non-ferrous metallurgy;
- ferrous metallurgy;
- fuel industry ;
- chemical industry;
- timber industry ;
- woodworking industry.