East European Plain

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Approximate extent of the East European Plain.<ref>Bolesław Augustowski Wielkie regiony naturalne Europy w: Antoni Wrzosek (red.) Geografia Powszechna. Tom III. Europa (bez ZSRR), Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa 1965</ref>

The East European Plain (also called the Russian Plain,<ref name="ReferenceA">Template:Britannica "Extending from eastern Poland through the entire European Russia to the Ural Mountains, the East European Plain encompasses all of the Baltic states and Belarus, nearly all of Ukraine, and much of the European portion of Russia and reaches north into Finland." — Britannica.</ref> or historically the Sarmatic Plain)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> is a vast interior plain extending east of the North European Plain,<ref name="Hoffecker15"/> and comprising several plateaus stretching roughly from 25 degrees longitude eastward. It includes Volhynian-Podolian Upland on its westernmost fringe, the Central Russian Upland, and, on the eastern border, encompasses the Volga Upland. The plain includes also a series of major river basins such as the Dnieper Lowland, the Oka–Don Lowland, and the Volga Basin. At the southeastern point of the East European Plain are the Caucasus and Crimean mountain ranges.<ref name="Hoffecker15">Template:Cite book</ref> Together with the North European Plain (covering much of Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Poland), and covering the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), European Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, southeastern Romania, and, at its southernmost point, the Danubian Plain in Northern Bulgaria (including Ludogorie and Southern Dobruja), it constitutes the majority of the Great European Plain (European Plain), the greatest mountain-free part of the European landscape.<ref name="Cavendish1014">Template:Cite book</ref> The plain spans approximately Template:Convert and averages about Template:Convert in elevation. The highest point of the plain (Template:Convert) is in the Bugulma-Belebey Upland, in the Eastern part of the plain, in the elevated area by the Ural Mountains (priyralie).<ref>БУГУЛЬМИНСКО-БЕЛЕБЕЕВСКАЯ ВОЗВЫШЕННОСТЬ</ref><ref>Восточно-Европейская равнина, Great Russian Encyclopedia</ref>