He further writes that the position of the main watershed of the northern and southern seas on the Russian Plain belongs to the Northern Uvals, and calling them «the main orohydrographic anomaly of the Russian Plain,» notes the paradox that «the highest elevations (Central Russian, Volga), located in the southern part of the plain, are not the main watershed lines, and give way to this role by the unimpressive, relatively low Northern Uvals».
Yu. A. Meshcheryakov also points out which, unlike most of the elevations of the Russian Plain, which have a meridional direction, «the origin of the inversion morphostructure of the Northern Uval remains unclear.This elevation has not a meridional, but a sub-latitudinal direction». Speaking about the «close, organic connection between the undulating deformations of the Urals and the Russian Plain,» he emphasizes that»… from the orographic node of the Three Stones» (Konzhakovsky Stone – 1569 m., Kosvinsky Stone – 1519 m., Denezhkin Stone – 1492 m.) the Timan Ridge departs.This expanded and elevated section of the Urals lies at the latitude of the Northern Uvalov and combines with them into a single latitudinal zone of uplift».
In the same work, the unity of origin of the Northern Uvalov, the Galich and Gryazovets-Danilov Uplands is noted, that is, those latitudinal elevations in the north-east of the European part of Russia that unite the heights of Karelia, Northern Uvals and the Subpolar Urals, in a single arc that part of the ridge that has a north-north-east orientation.
It should be emphasized that the common Ural ridge that we are used to today began to be called so only from the middle of the 18th century (from the Bashkir name of the Southern Urals – Uraltau). The northern part of the Ural Mountains has long been called «Stone» or «Earth’s belt.»
Unlike the South Urals, which stretches from north to south in the meridional direction, the Subpolar Ural (Kamen) is the most elevated and widest part of the Urals, where individual peaks rise more than 1800 m above sea level and the total width of the mountain strip reaches 150 km. (at 65° N), has a northeastern latitudinal direction.
The authors of «Geology of the USSR» (Volume II, Part I) note that «the Urals are highest where it changes its meridional strike to the north-east. All the largest peaks are concentrated here» Saber (1648 m.), Belfry (1700 m.), Karpinsky (1815 m.) And, finally, the highest point of the entire Urals – Mount Narada, elevated 1883 m above sea level. At this point, the Urals reaches its greatest width (more than 150 km.) And is divided into a number of parallel ridges of northeastern strike: Narodo-Itinsky, Exploratory, East Salady, Western Salady, Ob and Voi-Vy-Chugra».