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Geographic region in western Russia
Vladimir Meshchera
M. Presnyakov. Autumn in the Meshchera land. 2003?2005
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Meshchera Lowlands
(
Meshchyora Lowlands
) (
Russian
:
Мещёрская низменность
), also referred to as simply
Meshchera
/
Meshchyora
, is a spacious
lowland
in the middle of the
European Russia
. It is named after the Finnic
Meshchera
people, which used to live there (later mixing with neighbouring
Baltic
and
Slavic tribes
). It occupies parts of
Moscow Oblast
,
Vladimir Oblast
and
Ryazan Oblast
; respectively, it is called the Moscow, Vladimir and Ryazan Meshcheras.
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Geography
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Meshchera is a
plain
of roughly triangular shape bounded by rivers
Oka
from the South,
Moskva River
from the Southwest,
Klyazma
from the North and
Sudogda
and
Kolp
/Kolpna (Колпь, Колпна) from the East. Elevation: 80?130 metres.
Climate of Meshchera is
humid continental
with long, cold and snowy winters, and short, warm and rainy summers. Annual average temperature is +4.3 °C (39.7 °F). The coldest month is February with average temperature of ?11.6 °C (11.1 °F). During severe winters, temperatures can go as low as ?47 °C (?53 °F). Summers are warm, sometimes hot, with average July temperature of +19.8 °C (67.6 °F), and in extremely hot summers temperature can rise up to +40 °C (104 °F).
It is covered by mixed forests,
pine
forests in sandy areas, with many
wetlands
and
lakes
.
References
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55°10′58″N
40°20′00″E
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55.18278°N 40.33333°E
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55.18278; 40.33333
