Standard European map projections and aspect ratio constraints often lead publishers to crop the northeastern extremity of the continent, omitting remote Arctic regions like Ust'-Kara and Amderma.
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Why do standard paper wall maps of Europe often omit the extreme northeast, such as Ust'-Kara and Amderma?
Standard European map projections (usually conic or azimuthal) get horribly stretched up there, but the real issue is aspect ratio: including the Yugorsky Peninsula and Novaya Zemlya forces the whole bounding box east and north, leaving massive blank space over the Barents Sea and the Atlantic.
So publishers just crop the top right around 60°E or the Pechora River and pretend Europe ends at the Polar Urals. You basically have to look at a full Russian Federation administrative map or a circumpolar Arctic projection to actually see Amderma and Ust-Kara on paper.