| Zhiguli | |
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View to Zhguli from the Volga River
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| Country | Russia |
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| Part of | Volga Upland |
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| Highest point | Mount Bezymyannaya |
| - elevation | 381.2 m (1,251 ft) |
| Length | 60 km (37 mi) |
| Width | 32 km (20 mi) |
The Zhiguli Mountains ( /ʒiːɡuːˈliː/; Russian: Жигулëвские горы [Zhigulyovskiye gory]) or simply Zhiguli (Russian: Жигули́), sometimes called Zhiguli Height - Жигулëвская возвышенность [Zhigulyovskaya vozvyshennost], are a range of wooded mountains located in Russia on the right bank of the Volga River, in the Samara bend. The mountains are an important source of oil, being extracted since the Great Patriotic War. Altitude up to c. 1,240 ft (380 m). They are named for a nearby town Zhigulyovka (no longer extant), itself probably named for an early inhabitant, Zhegul (Russian: Жегуль).[1]
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The height is skew in a meridional direction: its northern slope very abruptly goes down to Volga and southern has a very weak bias, forming a wide plateau cut up by a labyrinth of ravines. In the western part of Zhiguli is separated from a plateau by the valley of the Otvazhinskiy Ravine, extended in a latitudinal direction. In the central, highest part Zhiguli absolutely imperceptibly pass in a plateau, and its maximum point was found only by means of tools as externally it is not allocated on almost flat surface in any way.
At tops, rocks and other rocky exposures of Zhiguli there are the most ancient geological breeds on a surface which have generated 230-350 million years ago in the Permian and Carboniferous periods. Sediment of these systems is presented mainly by limestones and dolomite. The slopes of Zhiguli are mostly formed by products of aeration of the Permian and Carboniferous breeds.