Folklore from this mountain range features a “Mistress of the Copper Mountain” with green eyes and a malachite gown. It’s not the Andes, but during a state-sponsored journey in his 60s, Alexander von Humboldt correctly predicted that diamonds were located in this mountain range. A “radioactive trace” in this mountain range stems from a disaster at the Mayak plutonium processing facility. This mountain range is home to a steel-producing town that was planned to resemble Gary, Indiana. Population centers in this mountain range include a city dubbed its country’s “third capital,” Yekaterinburg. The archipelago Novaya Zemlya is an extension of this mountain range to the north. For 10 points, the conventional border between Europe and Asia is formed by what Russian mountain range? ■END■
ANSWER: Ural Mountains [or Urals or Uralskie Gory]
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