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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 (10[1])facility. This mountain range is home to a steel-producing town that was planned to resemble Gary, Indiana. (10[1])Population centers in this (10[1])mountain range include a city dubbed its country’s “third capital,” Yekaterinburg. (10[4]-5[1])The archipelago (10[2])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■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Ural Mountains [or Urals or Uralskie Gory]
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