Talk:Mount Narodnaya

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Mount Naroda (Russian: Народа) is the highest peak of the Urals, located on the border of Komi Republic and Tyumen Oblast in Russia. Its height is 1,894 m. It is formed with quartzites and metamorphosed slates of the Proterozoic and Cambrian eras. There are some glaciers on the mountain. Also, there are sparse forests of larch and birch in deep valleys at the foot of the Mount Naroda. The slopes of the mountain are covered with highland tundra. 85.21.30.131 16:12, 8 January 2006 (UTC)Correct name of highest peak of the Urals is "Naroda" but not "Narodnaya". Probably this name go on mansi language (mansi - people who is living on Polarny and Pripolarny Ural). Naroda is in very hard-to-reach district, in this conextion name "Narodnaya" ("People's Mount")is difficult explainable. In addition to this name "Naroda" is marked on the topographical map Q-41-97,98 edition of 1980 (http://mapq41.narod.ru)/

In actual fact the peak has several names: Russian: "Naro'dnaya" meaning "People's mountain"; Komi(Zyrian): "Na'roda-Iz" meaning "Mount Naroda"; Mansi(Vogul): "Poen-Urr" which is the most ancient name, given by local natives.They often just call shortly "Na'roda" as well. "Na'roda" is the name of a river next to the mountain. It may also have its origin by Mansi or Nenets (the local natives), though it is unknown exactly.

The name "Naro'dnaya" appeared in 1927. The mountain was discovered and confirmed as the highest peak of the whole Urals by a troop of Northern-Ural expedition 1924-1928 years under the direction of geologist Alexander Aleshkov. According to eyewitnesses Alexander Aleshkov named it "in honor of the Soviet people, as the peak was discavered on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Soviet (Great October) Revolution of 1917 and in association with the name of the river "Na'roda" flowing near the mountain".

Since 50th they often became to put the stress in the word "Narodnaya" on the first syllable "Na'rodnay". Perhaps it was a combine of two names "Naro'dnaya" and "Na'roda". Nowadays the form is also often used.

The Mansi name "Poen-Urr" was revealed not long ago (approx in 1992) in the works by Antol Reguly, a famous Hungarian linguist and ethnographer, who explored the Polar Ural in 1843-1947 years. He wrote down local, by the Mansi(Vogul), names of about 60 peaks of the region of the Urals and charted them on a map (Reguly's map). It was revealed by Karelin V.G. "Urr" in Mansi language is usually called a blunt(flat) peak mountain.

Besides, according to the newest data its elevation is 1895.0 meters.

Ref: http://natty55555.funpic.org

natty55555 (talk) 12:52, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Request for a photo of the mountain
Would someone please upload a photo of the mountain and add it to this article. Wikipedia readers deserve to see what the highest peak in the Ural Mountain range looks like!--Hokeman (talk) 00:37, 28 September 2016 (UTC)


 * There's a photo there now. I shortened the photo caption, revising "...from the South Face" to just "...from the south"--the photo may show a view of the south face (though it's not a very "facelike" face but appears to be more of a rocky slope), but in any case it certainly isn't showing the view FROM the south face; it appears to have been taken from a nearly-level tundra tableland below the summit. I also deleted "Photo taken by "The Team ©", because photos on Wikipedia articles don't usually include the creator's credit in the caption; that information can be accessed by clicking on the photo and viewing the metadata associated with it. Besides, who is "The Team" and why would they append a copyright symbol to their name? 206.208.104.20 (talk) 12:13, 22 June 2017 (UTC)