European and Asian parts.
             Mountain Ranges: Ural Mountains to the East,
             Eastern Carpathians to the South-West
             Crimean Mountains to the South
             There are areas in the mountain ranges which are not generally high, allowing winds to flow over them most of the time, hence allowing air mass circulation inland. The Urals are only 1,600 ft high in some places and are not high enough to block out westerly air masses (some maps just show the Ural ranges not for their height, but because of it being a border separating Asian and European Russia).
             Russia has the largest area of forest – parts of the Taiga. Taiga is a stretch without interruption across Eurasia and North America. The northern boundary is the 10C isothermal and the southern boundary is marked by areas that have above 4 months a year above this temperature.
             Köppen's Classification of Climate
              Dfc – Moist continental mid latitude climate, wet, with temperature less than 4 months above 10C
              Dfb – Moist continental mid latitude, wet, with warmest month less than 22C
              ET – Polar Tundra – soil permanently frozen up to depths of a few 100m and warmest months greater than 10C but less than 0C..
             The area between 40N and 65N is of concern for Euro-Russia.
             • This causes a low pressure system at 3000km from the equator, 35 degrees North and South. Warm air from the equator descends forming a high pressure area.
             • The cooled air at the high pressure system wants to go to a w
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