The Urals montane tundra and taiga ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0610) covers the main ridge of the Ural Mountains (both sides) - a 2,000 km (north-south) by 300 km (west-east) region.

The region is on the divide between European and Asian ecoregions, and also the meeting point of tundra and taiga.

[1] The ecoregion is centered on the Ural mountains, a range that reaches heights of 1,895 m (6,217 ft).

[2] To the north is the Northwest Russian-Novaya Zemlya tundra ecoregion, to the west are the Scandinavian and Russian taiga, Sarmatic mixed forests and East European forest steppe ecoregions, to the east the West Siberian taiga, and to the south the Kazakh steppe.

This climate is characterised by long cold winters, and short, cool summers.