Kara Depression

{{Short description|Geologic formation in Russia}}

{{distinguish|South Kara Depression}}

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The Kara Depression is a depression in the Extreme North of European Russia, by the mouth of Kara River, north-east of the Pay-Khoy Ridge (a continuation of the northern Ural Mountains). It is of diameter {{Convert|50–60|km|abbr=on}} and filled with Quaternary deposits.[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00206817609471165#.U95qLvldWSo Structure of the Kara depression], International Geology Review Volume 18, Issue 1, 1976, {{doi|10.1080/00206817609471165}} (a translation of the article "О строении Карской депрессии", Sovetskaya Geologiya, 1976, no. 3)

The depression is part of the Pechora coal basin.