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Excellent vintage photo from Valentin’s collection showing a Mil-4 helicopter sitting on a rocky plateau (looks to me, an engine is still running), and you can also see the mountain ‘Narodnaya’, a highest peak in the Ural Mountains. It is 1895 m (6217 ft) tall.

‘Polar Ural’, - that’s how they call this region, and there’s an obvious reflection of its adjacency to the Arctic Circle in the name. Apparently, it is a harsh environment, - looks like a sort of ‘barren land’ - pictured on a nice day, though. ‘Narodnaya’ mountain is sporting a title of a highest peak in the whole Ural Mountains, and they also discuss ‘a few point of views’, accordingly some of them this mountain should also be recognized as a highest point on the entire territory of the ‘European Russia’, i.e., West of Ural Mountains.

And somewhere around here, by the way, goes a line dividing Europe and Asia.

I’m going to ask the man how and when did he get those pics. For one thing I can be sure: there was no ‘environmental tourism’ in the USSR in those days It must have been a sort of ’special mission’, he flew up there on, and had a chance to take the unique pics. Most probably, the helicopter lifted up a party of explorers to this plateau.

We’ll find it out soon.