Kuznetsk Depression

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Kuznetsk Depression (Russian: Кузнецкая котловина) is located among mountains of Southern Siberia: Kuznetsk Alatau to the Northeast, Salair Ridge to the Southwest, and Mountainous Shoria to the South. Elevation" up to 500m, area: 70,000 sq.km., length: 400km, widh: 120km.

It is split by a network of river valleys. Major rivers are Tom River, Inya River and other tributaries of Ob River.

The central part has several mesozoic basalt mountain ridges of height 600-740 m. (Taradanov's Ridge, Saltymakov's Ridge, Karakan Mountains).

The depression contains the famous coal-mining Kuznetsk Basin. Main cities are Kemerovo, Novokuznetsk, Prokopyevsk.