Valdai Hills

American

[vahl-dahy, vuhl-dahy] / vɑlˈdaɪ, vʌlˈdaɪ /

plural noun

a region of hills and plateaus in the W Russian Federation in Europe, at the source of the Volga River: highest point, 1,140 feet (347 meters).

Valdai Hills British

/ vɑːlˈdaɪ /

plural noun

a region of hills and plateaus in NW Russia, between Moscow and St Petersburg. Greatest height: 346 m (1135 ft)

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Valdai Hills

Measured through its entire windings it has a length of twenty-four hundred miles from its rise in the Valdai Hills, five hundred and fifty feet above sea-level, to its outlet into the Caspian Sea.

From Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Maturin Murray Ballou

Valdai Hills, a plateau rising to the height of 1100 ft. above the sea-level in Russia, forming the only elevation in the Great European Plain.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

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