Geologicheskii Vestnik

The Yuryuzan-Ai plain is located in the northeast of the Southern Fore-Urals. The modern relief of the plain was formed during the Pliocene-Quaternary period under the influence of the newest tectonic movements and denudation-accumulative processes. The plain has a complex hilly-rugged and ridge-wavy relief type with absolute marks from 182 to 500 m. Three surfaces of flattening are distinguished within the Yuryuzan-Ai plain, confined to hypsometric levels of 420–538 m, 300–400 m, 250–280 m. The main large rivers on the territory of the plain are the rivers Yuryuzan and Ai, belonging to the Kama-Belaya basin. The territory is located in the forest-steppe natural zone. The peculiarities of the geological structure of the territory led to the formation of specific forms of relief and a variety of landscapes, therefore, state nature reserves and nature monuments are decreed on the territory of the plain.

Southern Fore-Urals, geomorphology, landscapes

• Atlas Respubliki Bashkortostan [Atlas of the Republic of Bashkortostan]. Ufa: FGUP Omsk Cartographic Factory Press, 2005. 419 p. (in Russian).
• Gareyev A.M. Reki i ozera Bashkortostana [Rivers and lakes of Bashkortostan]. Ufa: Kitap Press, 2002. 260 p. (in Russian).
• Puchkov V.N. Geologiya Urala i Priural’ya (aktual’nyye voprosy stratigrafii, tektoniki, geodinamiki i metallogenii) [Geology of the Urals and the Fore-Urals (actual issues of stratigraphy, techtonics, geodynamics and metallogeny)]. Ufa: DizaynPoligrafServis Press, 2010. 280 p. (in Russian).
• Rozhdestvenskiy A.P. Noveyshaya tektonika i razvitiye rel’yefa Yuzhnogo Priural’ya [he newest tectonics and the development of the relief of the Southern Fore-Urals]. Moscow: Nauka Press. 1971. 303 p. (in Russian).
• Turikeshev G.T.-G., Danukalova G.A., Kutushev Sh.I.B. Yuzhnoye Predural’ye: geografiya, geologiya, tektonika i geomorfologiya [Southern Fore-Urals: geography, geology, tectonics and geomorphology]. Moscow: «Infra-M» Press, 2015. 227 p. (in Russian).
• Verbitskaya N.P. Geomorfologiya Yuzhnogo Urala i Mugodzhar [Geomorphology of the Southern Urals and Mugodzhar]. Moscow: Nedra Press, 1974. 84 s. (Proceedings of VSEGEI; New Series, V. 217) (in Russian).