Physical map of Russia
Physical map of Russia shows the shape of the land with shaded relief and colors for elevation. Rivers and lakes are drawn in blue, and dashed lines show country borders. Download the labeled map or use the version without names as a worksheet.
How to read this map
Named features on this map include Ural Mountains, Caucasus Mountains, North European Plain, Altai Mountains, Stanovoy Range, Pontic-Caspian steppe, Central Siberian Plateau, Sikhote-Alin, Verkhoyansk Range, Eastern Sayan Mountains, Yablonoi Mountains, Central Russian Upland, Putorana Plateau, Sredinny Range, Koryak Mountains, Chersky Range, Mount Elbrus, Mönkh Saridag, Gora Korolenko. The terrain colors help locate these features within the surrounding lowlands, plateaus and mountain belts.
The mapped river network includes Aldan, Sukhona, Shishhid Gol, Ural, Yenisey, Ob, Dnieper, Dnepre. Only selected rivers are labeled at this scale; a missing label does not mean that a river is absent.
Greens show lower elevations; tan and brown show higher land, with pale tones toward the highest terrain. Shadows emphasize the slopes. Vertical relief is exaggerated to make landforms easier to read, so the map is not a slope survey. Blue tones distinguish seas from land; the legend is a guide to land elevation, not a chart of water depth.
The relief uses Terrain Tiles, a composite of SRTM, GMTED2010 and ETOPO1 elevation data distributed through the AWS Open Data program. Boundaries, rivers, lakes and feature names come from Natural Earth. These are small-scale educational maps rather than navigation or engineering surveys.
Blank physical map
The blank version keeps the mapped features and removes the place labels. Download it for a geography worksheet or practice identifying the features.
Features and names
| Reference | Name or description |
|---|---|
| Named physical feature | Ural Mountains |
| Named physical feature | Caucasus Mountains |
| Named physical feature | North European Plain |
| Named physical feature | Altai Mountains |
| Named physical feature | Stanovoy Range |
| Named physical feature | Pontic-Caspian steppe |
| Named physical feature | Central Siberian Plateau |
| Named physical feature | Sikhote-Alin |
| Named physical feature | Verkhoyansk Range |
| Named physical feature | Eastern Sayan Mountains |
| Named physical feature | Yablonoi Mountains |
| Named physical feature | Central Russian Upland |
| Named physical feature | Putorana Plateau |
| Named physical feature | Sredinny Range |
| Named physical feature | Koryak Mountains |
| Named physical feature | Chersky Range |
| Named physical feature | Mount Elbrus |
| Named physical feature | Mönkh Saridag |
| Named physical feature | Gora Korolenko |
Data sources and license
- Natural Earth (public-domain geography): Public domain.
- Terrain Tiles / Mapzen (SRTM, GMTED2010, ETOPO1): Open elevation data; source attribution retained.
Map design and rendered images: Atlas of Maps, CC BY 4.0. Source databases retain their own licenses; the map license does not replace them.
Also see the political map of Russia, with cities, internal divisions, a location map and printable outline maps.
Frequently asked questions
What does a physical map show?
A physical map shows landforms and water: mountains, plateaus, lowlands, rivers, lakes and seas. This map uses elevation colors and hill shading instead of coloring each country separately.
Can I download physical map of russia without labels?
Yes. The blank relief map retains the terrain, rivers and outlines but removes place names. Both versions are available as PNG and PDF; the PDF uses A4 paper and can be scaled to US Letter.
Use this map
You can download, print and share this map for free, in class, in school projects, in presentations and on websites, as long as you credit the source: Physical map of Russia · Atlas of Maps (atlasofmaps.com), license CC BY 4.0.
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