Кавказ: горы между морями

The Caucasus: Mountains Between Two Seas

B2 · Upper Intermediate · non-fiction · 10 scenes · Premium story

An upper-intermediate geography reader on the isthmus between the Black and Caspian seas. Glaciers and semi-deserts four hundred kilometres apart, thirty languages in Dagestan alone, eight thousand years of Georgian wine, Armenia's highlands, Azerbaijan's burning ground, and the mountains that preserved all of it.

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Characters

The Greater Caucasus (Кавказский хребет) — Twelve hundred kilometres of young mountains
Dagestan (Дагестан) — Russia's southernmost republic
The southern three (Закавказье) — Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan
The mosaic (Мозаика) — What the mountains kept

Vocabulary from this story

хребет — range
перешеек — isthmus
вершина — peak
ледник — glacier
перевал — mountain pass
долина — valley
каньон — canyon
ущелье — gorge
нагорье — highland
равнина — lowland
полупустыня — semi-desert
вулкан — volcano