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12-784: Lgovsky District is located in the west central region of Kursk Oblast. The terrain is hilly plain; the district lies on the Orel-Kursk plateau of the Central Russian Upland . The main river in the district is the Seym River , a tributary of the Desna River to the southwest, of the Don River (Russia) basin. The district is 40 km west of the city of Kursk and 480 km southwest of Moscow . The area measures 40 km (north-south), and 40 km (west-east). The administrative center

24-425: A town of oblast significance —an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division , the district is incorporated as Lgovsky Municipal District . The town of oblast significance of Lgov is incorporated separately from the district as Lgov Urban Okrug. Central Russian Upland The Central Russian Upland (also Middle Russian Upland and East European Upland )

36-742: A minimum, and the sand and shingle deposits can be seen in many low cliffs. The brickearth is originally a wind-blown dust deposited under extremely cold, dry conditions but much has been re-deposited by flood water and mixed with flints . Superficial deposits were originally recorded only onshore and around the coast where they were laid down by various natural processes such as action by ice, water and wind. More recently offshore deposits have been mapped and may be separate sea-bed sediments. Most of these superficial deposits are unconsolidated sediments such as gravel , sand , silt and clay , and onshore they form relatively thin, often discontinuous patches. Almost all of these deposits were formerly classified on

48-480: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a location in Ukraine is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Southern Russia location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sedimentary deposits Superficial deposits (or surficial deposits ) refer to geological deposits typically of Quaternary age (less than 2.6 million years old) for

60-638: Is an upland area of the East European Plain and is an undulating plateau with an average elevation of 230–250 m (750–820 ft). Its highest peak is measured at 293 m (961 ft). The southeastern portion of the upland known as the Kalach Upland  [ ru ] . The Central Upland is built of Precambrian deposits of the crystalline Voronezh Massif . It spans approximately 180,000 miles² (480,000 km ) in central and southern European Russia northeast of Ukraine , extending from

72-815: Is part of the East European Craton and southwesterly descends towards the Dnieper-Donets Through (Depression) which along with Prypiat Through forms the Prypiat-Dniper-Donets aulacogen . Most of the Voronezh Massif is covered with thin layers of sedimentary deposits of the Devonian , Jurassic , Cretaceous , and Paleogene periods . In the southeast along the Don River between the cities of Boguchar and Pavlovsk (both in Voronezh Oblast )

84-424: Is the town of Lgov. The district is bordered on the north by Konyshyovsky District , on the east by Kurchatovsky District , on the south by Bolshesoldatsky District , and on the west by Rylsky District . Within the framework of administrative divisions , Lgovsky District is one of the twenty-eight in the oblast. The town of Lgov serves as its administrative center , despite being incorporated separately as

96-764: The Oka river to the Donets river . The upland stretches across a number of regions in Ukraine and the European portion of the Russian Federation . Its north and northwest borders are considered to be the Oka River and an imaginary line Kaluga - Ryazan . To the southeast towards the Donets River , the upland changes into the Donets Lowland . To the east its natural border is defined by

108-676: The Oka–Don Lowland and to the west there is the Dnieper Lowland . Most of the upland lies within the borders of Russia , hence its name. The Kostroma river and the city of the same name suggest that the area in Central Russia is an important reference point for the original home of the Slavic tribes . The river and city bear the same name as the Slavic goddess Kostroma . The Voronezh Massif

120-560: The Earth. These geologically recent unconsolidated sediments may include stream channel and floodplain deposits, beach sands, talus gravels and glacial drift and moraine . All pre-Quaternary deposits are referred to as bedrock . There are several types of superficial deposit, including raised beaches and brickearth . These were formed in periods of climate change during the ice ages . The raised beaches were generally formed during periods of higher sea level , when ice sheets were at

132-651: The basis of mode of origin with names such as, 'glacial deposits', 'river terrace deposits' or 'blown sand'; or on their composition such as ' peat '. Geology databases contain information on the properties of superficial deposits. Geological survey houses these Geology databases. This information can be used for a number of different purposes in farming and forestry, including avoiding erosion , assessing growing conditions, gauging risks in terms of nutrient leaching and release of toxic substances , planning site preparation, road construction, felling and extraction operations, judging accessibility etc. Each country and

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144-571: The crystalline layers come to the surface. On all sides of the upland the Precambrian deposits descend far below the sedimentary layers. A small part of the upland in the northwest was covered with a glacier during the Wolstonian Stage . Today almost all of the upland is covered with loess and loessial loams . 52°36′N 36°48′E  /  52.600°N 36.800°E  / 52.600; 36.800 This Central Russia location article

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