The Urals -the Centre of Russian metal industry

The Urals -the Centre of Russian metal industry.

New vocabulary

• accessiЬle –доступный
• action – действие
• chain – цепь
• characterize – характеризовать
• coal - уголь

• consequence – следствие
• copper – медь
• crisis – кризис
• delivery – поставка
• deposit - месторождение, залежи

New vocabulary

• destroy- разрушать
• development – развитие
• discover – открыть
• Earth - Земля (планета)
• easily – легко

• Europe – Европа
• exhaust – истощать
• export – экспортировать
• forest – лес
• fuel - топливо

New vocabulary

• activity – активность
• Asia – Азия
• metallic – металлический
• mineral – минерал
• modernization – модернизация

• hopefully - надо надеяться
• industry – промышленность
• iron – железо layer – слой
• lead – свинец
• mention – упоминать

New vocabulary

• mountain - гора
• nevertheless - тем не менее
• Nickel - никель
• plant – завод
• region – регион
• result – результат
• role – роль
• shortage – недостаток
• Siberia – Сибирь
• ( to bе ) situated - быть расположенным
• stimulate – стимулировать
• suffer – страдать
• surface – поверхность
• Ural - Урал, уральский
• the Urals - Уральские горы

Ural Mountains

• The Urals -а borderline between Europe and Asia -are а mountain chain which appeared many years ago as а result of tectonic activity. As time went on, the mountains were being destroyed bу the action of water, sun and air. As а result, the highest mountains are only one thousand metres high.

• One more consequence is that the greatest deposits of ores came to the surface of the Earth. The fact that they were easily accessiЬle stimulated the development of plants. The Ural mining industries began during the time of Peter the First

• In the 18th century the Urals, with their high quality ores and rich forests (а fuel for plants) played the greatest role in the world industry. Russia exported metal even to Great Britain. The modemisation of the Ural industry began with Magnitogorsk plant, built near the mountain Magnitnaya, rich in metallic ores. Later, many engineering plants were built in the region.

• The greatest plants are situated in Magnitogorsk, Nizhny Tagil, Chelyabinsk and Novotroitsk.

• At the beginning of the 20th century the Ural metal industry suffered а crisis because of the shortage of coal. But the delivery of coal from Kuzbass solved the problem. lt must Ье mentioned that about 70 metals and minerals were first discovered in the Ural mountains.

• Large deposits of iron, copper, lead, zinc, nickel, titanium, wolfram and many other metals characterise the region.

• Nowadays some of the deposits are exhausted, and the plants work on the ores from the new layers (Kazakhstan, Siberia) But nevertheless, the Urals are the region with great history, traditions and experience, and hopefully it will have new stages of development.

Questions

• 1. Where are the Urals situated?
• 2. Why are these mountains not very high?
• 3. Why are the deposits of ores easily accessiЬle?
• 4. When did the Ural mining industries begin? Did Russia export
• metal at that time?
• 5. Where did the modernisation of the Ural industry begin?
• 6. What was the reason for the crisis for the Ural metal industry?
• 7. How many metals and minerals were first discovered in the Urals?
• 8. What are the recent problems of the Urals?
• 9. Does the author of the text hope that the region will have new
• stages of development? And what do you think?

Thanks for your attention!