Among mountainous regions of Europe and Western Asia the western part of the Greater Caucasus is unequalled in flora and fauna diversity and the state of their conservation. This is an area inhabited by many threatened, rare, endemic and relict plant and animal species. It is only here that the

Mount Elbrus or Happiness Mountain is a dormant volcano located in the western Caucasus mountain range, in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay–Cherkessia, Russia, near the border of Georgia. Mt. Elbrus's peak is the highest in the Caucasus, in Russia. Elbrus stands 20 km (12 mi) north of the main range

In the Republic of Tuva in Russian Federation there is a natural park called Uvs Nuur Basin (named after saline Uvs lake in Mongolia), which is in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list for its unique ecosystem and great number of unstudied archeological artefacts especially its burial mounds, rock

And that's how Kamchatka looks in Summer... At first summertime glance, the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka appears to be surrounded by a lot of very beautiful mountains. But these are no ordinary "mountains" -- in fact, Kamchatka has many volcanoes, some of which have been extremely active in