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	Encyclopedia article: Shilka River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shilka is a river in Chita Oblast (additional info and facts about Chita Oblast), South-Eastern Russia (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) of length 560 km (348 miles).
		It originates as a confluence (A place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)) of Onon (additional info and facts about Onon) and Ingoda rivers.
		The river is navigable for its whole length.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shilka_river.htm (72 words)

	Shilka River -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		river rising in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China, on the western slope of the Greater Khingan Range, where it is known as the Hailar River.
		It is formed by the union of the Argun and Shilka rivers.
		The confluence of the Argun with the Shilka is regarded as the beginning of the...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9067371 (839 words)

	Carriage Museum of America
		As we proceed inland from the coast, the country is principally a gently undulating plain, the thinly scattered groves of birch and aspen stripped bare of all leaves by the autumn winds, and the prospect reduced to a level monotony of russet tones.
		The river freezes to a depth of six feet, and when this tremendous body of solid ice, moving in immense masses, is raised up and sweeps down with the current, its power is irresistible.
		Chita is situated on the upper waters of the Shilka, a tributary of the Amur River, and is the point at which the surveyed line of the trans Siberian railroad terminates at present.
	www.carriagemuseumlibrary.org /sledge_and_rail.htm (9578 words)

	Onon River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Onon gol is a river in Mongolia and Russia of length 818 km and watershed 94,010 sq.
		It originates at the Eastern slope of the Kente Mountain (Khentii Mountain).
		Its confluence with Ingoda River produces Shilka River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Onon_river (110 words)

	Rxpress - Shilka River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shilka is a river in Chita Oblast, South-Eastern Russia of length 560 km (348 miles).
		It originates as a confluence of Onon and Ingoda rivers.
		Its confluence with the Argun on the Russia-China border gives rise to Amur River.
	www.rxpresspharmacy.com /wiki/index/Shilka_River (56 words)

	AllRefer.com - Argun, East Asia, East Asia (East Asian Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Argun[Ar´gOOn´] Pronunciation Key, Mandarin Ergun, river, 950 mi (1,529 km) long, rising in the Da Hinggan Mts., Heilongjiang prov., NE China, as the Hailar River and flowing W to the Russian border, then NE along the Russian-China frontier, where it joins the Shilka River to form the Amur.
		Hailar, China, is the largest city on the river.
		Silver, lead, and coal are found along the river banks.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Argun.html (194 words)

	Amur River -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Among its tributaries are the Zeya, Bureya, and Ussuri rivers.
		The Nen River is the principal tributary of the Sungari River, which is itself a tributary of the Amur River.
		The Ussuri is formed by the confluence of the Ulakhe and Arsenyevka rivers, both of which rise on the southwestern slopes of the Sikhote-Alin mountains.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9355255 (890 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mongolia
		The Kerulon, or Kerélon, River, "though an inconsiderable river, is the longest of the vast arid east Mongol upland, and the permanence of the pastures along its banks has always attracted a large share of the nomad population; many of the Tsentsen princes keep their headquarters on or close to the Kerulon" (Campbell, 24).
		This river rises on the southern slopes of the Kental Mountains, near Mount Burkhan Kalduna and enters the Dalai Nor, five or six miles south-west of the Altan Emûl (Golden Saddle) a pair of brown hills, famous in Mongol legend, between which the river flows.
		Urga includes three towns lying to the north of the Tola River: Urga proper, the Mongol quarters; the Russian consulate and settlement, a mile and a half to the east; and farther east, Mai-mai chên, the Chinese Urga, the commercial town.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10479b.htm (3216 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Argun River, Asia
		Argun (Russian: Аргу́нь) is the Russian name of a river which is a part of the Russia-China border.
		The river flows from the Western slope of the Greater Khingan Range in Inner Mongolia.
		Its confluence with Shilka River forms the Amur River.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Argun_River,_Asia (89 words)

	Amur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Amur River (Russian: Амур; Simplified: 黑龙江; Traditional: 黑龍江; Hanyu Pinyin: Hēilóng Jiāng, or "Black Dragon River"; Mongolian: Хара-Мурэн, Khara-Muren or "Black River"; Manchu: Sahaliyan Ula, literal meaning "Black River") is one of the world’s ten longest rivers, forming the border between the Russian Far East and Manchuria in China.
		The Chinese province of Heilongjiang on the south bank of the river is named after it, as is the Russian Amur Oblast on the north bank.
		Northern tributary: the Shilka, originating from the eastern slopes of Kente Mountain in Mongolia.
	www.vacilando.org /_cliextra/baghdadmuseumorg/includepage.php?title=Amur&action=edit (377 words)

	Khabarovsk Krai Government site - Tourism and Recreation - The Amur river
		One of the largest rivers in the world formed by the merge of the Shilka and Argun rivers.
		The biggest tributaries of the Amur river within the Khabarovsk Territory are Amgun, Anuy, Tunguska, Bureya and Ussuri.
		The valley of the Amur river in Khabarovsk Territory is characterized by a large variety of nature, presence of archeological and historical objects.
	www.adm.khv.ru /invest2.nsf/pages/common/amur_en.htm (362 words)

	MSN Encarta - Mongol Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mongol Empire, area ruled by the great Mongol khans in the 13th and 14th centuries; uniting almost all of western and eastern Asia, it was one of the largest land empires in history.
		The original homeland of the Mongols, situated in the eastern zone of the Asian steppe, was bounded by the Khingan Mountains on the east, the Altai and Tian mountains on the west, the Shilka River and the mountain ranges by Lake Baikal on the north, and the Great Wall of China on the south.
		When disaster struck with flooding of the Yellow River and severe famine in northern China during the middle decades of the 14th century, the Mongol leadership was unable to meet the administrative challenge.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571469/Mongol_Empire.html (989 words)

	Deportations from the Volga Region and the Central Black Earth Region
		The train was unloaded in Sretensk, Transbaikalia, from which the deportees were taken down the Shilka River to the north, to a mine called Tselik in the Ust'-Kariysk district (today district of Chernyshevsk, Chita region).
		The train was unloaded at Mogocha station and all exiles were taken to the north to the settlement of Tupik on the banks of the Tungir River (center of the Tungiro-Olyokminsk district).
		The deportees were unloaded in Achinsk, taken down the Chulym River to the north on barges and disembarked north of the Birilyussy district in a settlement called Sopka.
	www.memorial.krsk.ru /eng/Exile/044.htm (769 words)

	Butterflies of the Argun' River basin
		Ildikan - the Ildican and Srednyaya Borzya Rivers interfluve 15-18 km ENE of the village Kalga; a steppe and rocky mountain slopes
		Unda - the Unda River upper flow (the Shilka River basin) at the Nizhnyaya Shakhtoma River mouth, at the village Nizhnyaya Shakhtoma, bank meadows and willow and alder thickets.
		Solontsy - a damp meadow at the Urov River headwaters at the village Solontsy, 38-40 km ESE from the village Gazimurskii Zavod.
	pisum.bionet.nsc.ru /kosterin/argune.htm (8993 words)

	.:. Terelj-Juulchin Co.,Ltd .:. Tourism, Trade & Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Onon river starts from back slopes of the Khentii mountain after flowing 808 km it reaches the Shilka river on Russian territory.
		Onon river`s basin is one of the few places closely connected to the memory of Chingis Khaan.
		Khuduu aral is a steppe located to the south of Kherlen Bayan Ulaan mountain, on the bay of Kherlen river at an altitude of 1300 meters above the sea level and occupies a territory 30 km in length and 20 km wide.
	www.terelj-juulchin.url.mn /to_visit4.html (284 words)

	Koguryo at its Height (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Yalu River, Korea's longest river [490 mi (789 km)], flows westward from the slopes of Paektu-san (Paektu Mountain) on the Kaema Plateau to the Yellow Sea.
		The Tumen River flows eastward from the slopes of the 9,003 ft (2,744 m) high Paektu-san (Paektu Mountain) along Korea's northern border to the East Sea.
		The Yangtze River, China's most important river and the world's third longest river [3,915 mi (6,300 km)], drains a vast region of about 700,000 sq mi (1,800,000 sq km) between Qinghai Province and the East China Sea.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C02/Fig0203a.htm (411 words)

	Species info - HTML
		In Irkutsk region, it used to nest in the Angara, Irkut and upper Lena river valleys including in forest-steppe along the Angara in the 1930s (Skalon 1934, Gagina 1961); at the end of the nineteenth century it was believed to nest in south Baikal (Taczanowski 1891_1893).
		It was also considered "common" on the Aleun river, where there were nine sightings along a 120 km stretch of the river (Kostin and Pan'kin 1977).
		However, diversion of water from rivers for irrigation in winter may affect prey distribution, and this factor, exacerbated by ever-increasing population pressure on land in Pakistan (Savage 1972), threatens to reduce raptor populations further.
	www.rdb.or.id /view_html.php?id=76&op=aquiclan (13245 words)

	Species info - HTML
		The main breeding grounds are currently in the Amur and Ussuri river basins, near to the border between eastern Russia and north-east China, and there are smaller breeding populations along the Zeya river in Russia, around Khanka Lake/Xingkai Hu on the border between Russia and China, and on the Sanjiang plain in north-east China.
		Further south, in the lower Bureya river, the earliest clutches were found on 10 April, but most birds started to lay eggs in the week 15_22 April (Pan'kin and Neufeldt 1976a).
		, in the Wutong and Dulu river basins from 3,000 km
	www.rdb.or.id /view_html.php?id=284&op=cicoboyc (10500 words)

	Principal Rivers of the World
		Confluence of Shilka (Russia) and Argun (Manchuria) rivers
		Confluence of Nmai and Mali rivers, northeast Burma
		River wild: Argentina's Patagonia River Ranch has the grit of the wilderness, the comforts of an estancia and some of the best trout fishing in the world.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0001779.html (327 words)

	Argun
		river, 950 mi (1,529 km) long, rising in the Da Hinggan Mts., Heilongjiang prov., NE China, as the Hailar River and flowing W to the Russian border, then NE along the Russian-China frontier, where it joins the Shilka River to form the Amur.
		Shilka - Shilka, river, c.345 mi (560 km) long, formed E of Chita, Chita oblast, SE Siberian Russia, by the...
		Heilongjiang, river, c.1,800 mi (2,900 km) long, formed by the confluence of the...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0804657.html (175 words)

	Onon river Definition / Onon river Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Onon gol is a river in Mongolia of length 818 km and watershedA watershed or catchment basin is the region of land that drains into a specified body of water, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean.
		Its confluence with Ingoda River produces Shilka RiverShilka is a river in Chita Oblast, South-Eastern Russia of length 560 km (348 miles).
		Onon River is a major watershed for Asia.
	www.elresearch.com /Onon_river (154 words)

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		This arrangement gave the steerage the benefit of all cinders and smoke, unless the wind was abeam or astern.
		In that year two wooden boats, the Shilka and the Argoon, were constructed on the Shilka river, preparatory to the grand expedition of General Mouravieff.
		Their timber was cut in the forests of the Shilka, and their engines were constructed at Petrovsky-Zavod.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /service/gc/mtfgc/14126/1320127.txt (334 words)

	vespidae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chitinskaya oblast': 5 males, 16 females, Chita; Kyra; Nerchinskii Zavod; Gazimurovskii Zavod District, the Budyumkan River, 5 km from the mouth.
		It was found in the Argun River basin in a larch-birch forest with participation of Quercus mongolicus, i.
		Yakutia: 8 females, 2 workers, Yakutsk; the upper flow of the Vostochnaya Khandyga River, 232 km of the road Khandyga-Magadan.
	www.nsk.su /~vvdubat/ves_p1.htm (3551 words)

	"SSMongolia" LLC .::. "Super Slam" Mongolia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ulaanbaatar, also known as Ulan Bator, formerly Urga, city in north central Mongolia, capital of the Republic of Mongolia, on the Tuul River.
		The city is situated in a valley at an elevation of about 1310 m (about 4300 ft) and is surrounded by ridges.
		Genghis's vast empire stretched from the China Sea to the Dnieper River and from the Persian Gulf virtually all the way to the Arctic Ocean.
	www.gsmongolia.com /mongolia_info5.html (782 words)

	Samar Magic Fishing Tours-Happy Fishing Vacations in Mongolia
		Taimen are known to the Mongolians as the "River Wolf".
		The Onon river rises on the northern slope of the Khentii Khan Mountain Range and flows 808km to join the Shilka river in the Russia Federation.
		The Balj river is river an eastern tributary of the Onon river.
	www.samarmagictours.com /en_photodiary.htm (1489 words)

	vespidae
		In its distribution, it is northwards limited by the south taiga: Tobolsk, Krasnoyarsk in West Siberia and upper flow of the Shilka River in Transbaikalia (Kurzenko, 1982).
		Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District: Labytnangi; Shchuch'ya River; the Polar Urals.
		Yakutia: Yakutsk; the upper flow of the Vostochnaya Khandyga River, 232 km of the road Khandyga-Magadan.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Cyprus/4397/vespidae.htm (2132 words)

	Seeds Planted in Russia by Land and Sea! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During the month of July the team ran two simultaneous distributions; one on land and one on the Shilka River.
		The first project that this ambitious Russian team had was to build the rafts for the river trip en route to Chasovaya from Sretensk.
		While the boats were traveling down the Shilka River, the second Book of Hope team visited a total of 13 villages, towns, and cities from Chasovaya to Mogocha.
	www.bookofhope.net /news/bylandandsea.asp (362 words)

	Mongolia's Geography - Terrain
		Originating among the high peaks of the Hangayn Range in west central Mongolia, the great Selenge River flows northeast where it is joined by the Orhon River near the border with Russia.
		Another of Mongolia's largest rivers, the Egiyn, carrys water from the beautiful Lake Hovsgol in northern Mongolia south then east before turning southeast to join the Selenge River on its journey to Lake Baikal.
		Finally, the Kereulen River begins its jouney among the peaks of the Hentiyn Mountains and flows south onto the Mongolian Plateau, where it bends northeast, draining the eastern steppes on its journey to Lake Hulun Ch'ih in nortwestern Manchuria.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Jta/Mo/MoGEO1.htm (469 words)

	Transsib photo-gallery - Historical Photo-archive - Trans-Baikal Siberian line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There are photos of Trans-Baikal line (from Mysovaya station at Baikal to Sretensk station in the valley of Shilka river) in this Photoarchive subsection.
		Chronologically the time of photographies spreads all over the period from beginning of building of this line (1895) up to the beginning of the 20-s of the XX century.
		Railway embankment is rather high above the river because Khilok in freshet period can rise 5 meters or even more.
	www.transsib.ru /Eng/his-zab.htm (783 words)

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