<P> During the Soviet industrialization in the 1930s the city of Magnitogorsk was founded in the South - Eastern Ural as a center of iron smelting and steelmaking . During the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941--1942, the mountains became a key element in Nazi planning for the territories which they expected to conquer in the USSR . Faced with the threat of having a significant part of the Soviet territories occupied by the enemy, the government evacuated many of the industrial enterprises of European Russia and Ukraine to the eastern foothills of the Ural, considered a safe place out of reach of the German bombers and troops . Three giant tank factories were established at the Uralmash in Sverdlovsk (as Yekaterinburg used to be known), Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil, and Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in Chelyabinsk . After the war, in 1947--1948, Chum--Labytnangi railway, built with the forced labor of Gulag inmates, crossed the Polar Ural . </P> <P> Mayak, 150 km southeast of Yekaterinburg, was a center of the Soviet nuclear industry and site of the Kyshtym disaster . </P> <P> The Ural Mountains extend about 2,500 km (1,600 mi) from the Kara Sea to the Kazakh Steppe along the northern border of Kazakhstan . Vaygach Island and the island of Novaya Zemlya form a further continuation of the chain on the north . Geographically this range marks the northern part of the border between the continents of Europe and Asia . Its highest peak is Mount Narodnaya, approximately 1,895 m (6,217 ft) in elevation . </P> <P> By topography and other natural features, the Urals are divided, from north to south, into the Polar (or Arctic), Nether - Polar (or Sub-Arctic), Northern, Central and Southern parts . </P>

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