Ural
a river of Russia; rises on the E. side of the Urals in the province of Orenburg, and runs mainly S. for 1,400 miles, into the Caspian sea, being practically the boundary between Europe and Asia. It gives name to a province, Uralsk, which lies mainly E. of the river and N. of the Caspian, belonging to the Steppe region and to the "Kirghiz provinces" included in Asiatic Russia.