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internal variety is entirely lacking

To the east, beyond a parted veil of hill areas, large lakes, and the inhospitable Pripyat Marsh, lies the greatest of all the lowlands, the expansive East European Plain (fig. 2.1), spanning the entire breadth of the European peninsula from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea in the south. Tins plain is not drawn on MBT the "European" scale. Its vastness lends an alien aspect, and invading European armies, such as those led by Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler, felt overwhelmed here. A huge independentstate, Russia, arose to match this great plain, and its size, too, is MBT Shoes atypical for Europe. Small wonder that most Europeans look upon huge Russia, seated in this massive lowland, as marginally European.
That is not to say that internal variety is entirely lacking in the East European Plain. In the southern, unglaciated part, three major east-facing cuestas parallel the Dnipro, Don, and Volga Rivers, vaguely reminiscent of the Paris Basin but on MBT a far grander scale. The northern half of the plain abounds in the same glacial features that dominate the North European Plain. Four advances of the ice sheets from Scandinavia MBT Shoes left terminal and recessional moraines, with large, flat, poorly drained lowlands called polesiye in the till plains between the moraine walls. The recessional moraine that follows the line from Warszawa to Minsk in Belarus, Smolensk, and Moskva has vibram fivefingers served as an east-west route of both transport and invasion.

To the north lies another fairly extensive plains region, the Fenno-Scandian Shield. Massively glaciated and underlain by ancient rocks, some of which lie exposed at the surface, the shield is centered in Finland and Russian Karelia. vibram five fingers Two great moraine walls, called the Salpausselka, parallel the south coast of Finland and serve to dam up much of the interior, producing an intricate system of connecting lakes.