Today we will get acquainted and characterize 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 island of the same name in 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. This is a male monastery.
I would like to highlight one more place before moving on to the EGP of the European North. A monument located on the territory of our boundless country - Kivach. This is one of the largest lowland waterfalls, a natural monument of Russia, which has a height of about eleven meters.
This small digression here is not in vain, it is a reminder that our country is so great and beautiful that a lifetime is not enough to get to know each otherwith all its corners. So, we propose to start considering the EGP of the European North with the composition of this region, we will start right now.
Composition
This region includes the republics: Karelia and Komi, autonomous districts: 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 about 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 belong to the European North. There are cases when autonomous regions are deleted from the list.
Many may have a question as to why the Pskov region belongs to the North of Russia, and St. Petersburg does not, although the second object is located to the north of the first. Everything is explained by the fact that St. Petersburg is the personification of the Western beginning in Russian history, and we have already mentioned that the geographical location plays an insignificant role in this concept.
Climate
Let's consider some more features of the EGP of the European North. Let's talk a little more about the climate of this region. Since Arctic breathing prevails in the European North of Russia, it is cold in these regions for most of the year, summer is short and not hot. Multi-day snowstorms and blizzards are possible. The winds that come from the Arctic Ocean are very dry and cold, they form thisnot very comfortable climate.
Let's 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. It can be said that the climate is not stable, air masses from the northeast bring cold, and tropical air in summer can cause a really hot 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 there is a polar night in winter and a polar day in summer.
As for Komi, it's a bit more complicated. The winter is very long and cold, the temperature can drop below minus fifty degrees. Summers are very short and cool, with night frosts possible at the beginning and end of the season. In winter, snowdrifts reach up to a meter high. When the grass turns green in the southern part of the Komi Republic, in the northern part there can be frosts down to minus thirty degrees. The western part is slightly warmer than the eastern part, since the first part is dominated by the air masses of the Atlantic currents.
Natural resources
Characterization of the EGP of the European North also involves an analysis of the issue 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 and chemical;
- non-ferrous metallurgy;
- building materials;
- ferrous metallurgy.
Housekeeping
The next point that should be touched upon when considering the EGP of the European North is the economy of the regions of this territory. We list the ones that are the most developed:
- non-ferrous metallurgy;
- ferrous metallurgy;
- fuel industry;
- chemical industry;
- timber industry;
- woodworking industry.
