Iremel (, ) is a compact
mountain
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ridge in the Southern
Ural Mountains
The Ural Mountains ( ),; , ; , or simply the Urals, are a mountain range in Eurasia that runs north–south mostly through Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural (river), Ural and northwestern Kazakhstan. in the republic of
Bashkortostan
Bashkortostan, officially the Republic of Bashkortostan, sometimes also called Bashkiria, is a republic of Russia between the Volga river and the Ural Mountains in Eastern Europe. The republic borders Perm Krai to the north, Sverdlovsk Oblast ...
,
Russian Federation
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(bordering with
Chelyabinsk Oblast
Chelyabinsk Oblast; , is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an oblast) of Russia in the Ural Mountains region, on the border of Europe and Asia. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Chel ...
to the north-west). The highest peak, Bolshoy Iremel (''Big Iremel''), or simply Iremel, stands at 1,589 metres (5200 ft) high. Maly Iremel (''Small Iremel''), 6 kilometers north-east, stands at 1,449 meters. It is the source of the 1,430 kilometres long
River Belaya.
The highest peak of the South Urals,
Mount Yamantaw (1,638 meters) is located 53 kilometers south-west from Bolshoy Iremel.
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Mountains of Bashkortostan
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