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Discussions about the border between Europe and Asia have been active over many hundreds of years. The geopolitical changes of the late 20th century in the post-Soviet space prompt us to reconsider this issue. The authors of the article published below analyze the long evolution of ideas about the Europe-Asia border and propose a modern point of view on this problem, revealing a natural geographic boundary between the two continents.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Chibilev, S.V. Bogdanov, 2011, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2011, Vol. 81, No. 9, pp. 828–838.
RAS Corresponding Member Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Chibilev is director of the Institute of Steppe, RAS Ural Branch. Sergei Vyacheslavovich Bogdanov, Cand. Sci. (Hist.), is head of the Laboratory of Natural and Historical-Cultural Heritage at the same institute.
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Chibilev, A.A., Bogdanov, S.V. The Europe-Asia border in the geographical and cultural-historical aspects. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 81, 552–562 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331611050017
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