 In Bashkortostan there is a 13th-century legend about a hero named Ural .He sacrificed his life for the sake of his people, and they poured a stone pile over his grave, which later turned into the Ural Mountains.By topography and other natural features, Ural is divided, from north to south, into the Polar (or Arctic), Near-Polar (or Sub-Arctic), Northern, Central and Southern parts.