Kosvinsky Kamen

Kosvinsky Kamen
Косвинский камень
Highest point
Elevation1,519 m (4,984 ft)
Coordinates59°31′N 59°03′E / 59.517°N 59.050°E / 59.517; 59.050
Geography
Map
LocationRussia
Parent rangeUral Mountains

Mount Kosvinsky Kamen, Kosvinsky Mountain, Kosvinski Mountain,[1] Kosvinsky Rock or Rostesnoy Rock (Russian: Косвинский камень, Косьвинский камень, Ростесной камень) is a mountain in the northern Urals, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.[2][3]

Its summit is bare of vegetation with an uneven rocky surface and small lakes fed by melting snow. The Kosva River flows from the mountain, hence the name.[3]

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia describes Kosvinsky Rock as "mountain massif" of height 1,519 m.[4] Its constitution is pyroxenites and dunites of lower and middle Paleozoic era. The slopes are covered with conifers with some birch up to 900–1,000 m, with alpine tundra above.[5]

  1. ^ Austin, Greg; Muraviev, Alexey D. (10 May 2000). The Armed Forces of Russia in Asia. I.B. Tauris. p. 187. ISBN 978-1860644856.
  2. ^ Brockhaus and Efron describe its location within the Russian Empire as Verkhoturye uyezd, Perm Governorate, in the okrug of the Bogoslovsky copper plant (Богословский медноплавильный завод)
  3. ^ a b Косвинский камень, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian)
  4. ^ Brockhaus and Efron say that its elevation is 2,375 ft., mountain foot circumference is about 40 km.
  5. ^ "Косвинский камень," Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian)