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		Ussuri river flows north to the Amur River at Khabarovsk, forming part of the Russia-China border.
		The Ussuri abounds in fish, and it is used to transport timber.
		In 1991 in a peace gesture, the USSR announced the transfer of some of the islands in the river to Chinese control.
	www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/u/print/ussuri.shtml (102 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ussuri River
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		The Sino-Soviet border conflict of 1969 was a series of armed clashes between the Soviet Union and Peoples Republic of China, occurring at the height of the Sino-Soviet split of the 1960s.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ussuri-River (618 words)

	Appendices
		According to the Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina (SRBH), the external boundaries are marked by the Una river in the west, the Sava river in the north, the state boundary with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the east, and Croatia and the Serbian Republic Krajina in the south (CIA, 1998; IBRU, 1999).
		The Abrene/Pytalovo region is crossed by the Utroya River, a tributary of the Vclikaya river (CIA, 1998; Cohen,1998).
		Botswana’s political status as riparian to the Orange River basin remains to be clarified among the basin states (Conley and van Niekerk, 1998).
	www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu /publications/atlas/atlas_html/references/appendixa.html (2011 words)

	Amur Case
		River perch was first introduced as 160, 000 individuals into the Upper Amur basin from the Vitim basin in 1919.
		The main fishing grounds are the Amur river, coastal waters of the Tatarsky Gulf and the Okhotskoe Sea.
		Amur river is one of the largest rivers in North East Asia.
	www.american.edu /ted/amur.htm (4383 words)

	amur
		One of the largest rivers in the world formed by the merge of the Shilka and Argun rivers.
		The Amur river flows across 6 regions of the Khabarovsk Territory: Khabarovsky, Nanaisky, Amursky, Komsomolsky, Ulchsky and Nikolaevsky.
		The valley of the Amur river in Khabarovsk Territory is characterized by a large variety of nature, presence of archeological and historical objects.
	www.villagegreendenison.com /amur.htm (332 words)

	Amur River -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		It is the longest river of the Russian Far East, and it ranks behind only the Yangtze and Huang Ho (Yellow River) among China's longest 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.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9272845?tocId=9272845 (927 words)

	Seaside weather - Characteristic features of a mode of the rivers of Seaside (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For the rivers of territory it is characteristic high water a mode during all warm period of year.
		Flooding during a spring flood are registered only on the river of Ussuri and on its large inflows, and also on the rivers Spassovke, Ilistoy.
		Catastrophic flooding cover some large pools, 15-20 years, in a river basin of the Malinovka once in 23-37 years, in river basin Arsenievka - once in 22-30 years, in a river basin Ilictoy once in 19 years, Spassovka - once in 7 years repeat in pools of the rivers of Ussuri, Big Ussurki once.
	www.primpogoda.ru /art_eng.asp?id=10 (671 words)

	The USSURI River Incident as a Factor in Chinese Foreign Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In January of that year, there were reports of a clash along the Ussuri in which the Soviets accused the Chinese of wildly provocative behavior in connection with the excesses of the Cultural Revolution.
		Damansky Island is located in the Ussuri River, which forms the boundary between the Soviet Union and China for approximately 180 miles southward from Khabarovsk.
		Under cover of the wintry night of 1-2 March, approximately 300 Chinese soldiers, camouflaged in white uniforms, crossed the Ussuri River to Damansky Island and established a bivouac area for the night.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1971/jul-aug/Marks.html (4119 words)

	The Cranes
		Southern Africa: the Okavango River and Delta; the Makgadikgadi Pans; the Zambezi River and Zambezi Delta (Marromeu Complex); the Bangweulu Swamps; the Kafue Flats; Etosha Pan.
		Central Asia: Cao Hai Lake; the Llasa/Yarlong/Zarbo River basin; Ruoergai marsh; the Indus River; the Brahmaputra River; the Kunovat-Ob River basin; Lake Ab-i-Estada.
		East Asia: the Daurian steppe/wetland complex; the Amur River basin; the Ussuri River basin; the Sanjiang Plain; Lake Khanka/Xingkai Hu; the Yancheng salt flats; the middle Yangtze River (including the wetlands at Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake); the Yellow River delta; the Han and Imjin Rivers and the Han River estuary.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/distr/birds/cranes/global.htm (2584 words)

	Khabarovsk Krai Government site - Tourism and Recreation - The Amur river (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The biggest tributaries of the Amur river within the Khabarovsk Territory are Amgun, Anuy, Tunguska, Bureya and Ussuri.
		This fish permanantly lives in its waters and is distinguished for its delicious taste and big size: grass carp and fl carp, called Amur fish; E.bambusa, big head fish, skygazer, snakehead, taimen, mirrow carp, Amur sturgeon and kaluga fish (great Siberian sturgeon).
		They are Lotus lake and ancient volcanoes, picturesque and rear valley lakes, Tirsky rock with the traces of Manchurian temple of the XV century, Sikhachy-Alyan Petroglyphs.
	www.adm.khv.ru /invest2.nsf/pages/common/amur_en.htm (362 words)

	Fauna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The remainder of the country is the lowland peninsular area which has a milder climate and includes the islands of Chejudo and Ullungdo.
		Flocks of about 2,000 birds concentrated in the estuary of the Hangang River were observed in November 1975.
		The female which was shot near Vladivostok is now in the National University Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark and the two specimens from Korea are preserved in the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology in Tokyo.
	www.bergen.org /AAST/projects/Korea/geography/fauna.html (1882 words)

	Channa argus
		Dukravets (1992) reported additional introductions of this fish beginning in 1976 from the lower part of the Sarysu River, north of the middle Syr Dar’ya, followed by further releases into reservoirs of the Talas and Chu Rivers, north and northeast of Tashkent, the capitol of Kazakhstan, during the middle 1980s.
		The species was thriving in irrigation reservoirs and isolated ponds on the Talas River, and more than 10 metric tons were commercially harvested from the reservoirs in 1989 (Dukravets, 1992).
		In the Amur River where the species is native and the Syr Dar’ya of Kazahkstan where it is introduced, males tend to be larger than females, with a higher dorsal fin, wider interorbital distance, and longer snout, postorbital distance, and upper jaw.
	fisc.er.usgs.gov /Snakehead_circ_1251/html/channa_argus.html (5010 words)

	Primorsky Krai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The ranges are cut by the picturesque narrow and deep valleys of the rivers and by large brooks, such as the Partizanskaya RiverPartizanskaya, the Kiyevka RiverKiyevka, the Zerkalnaya RiverZerkalnaya, the Cheryomukhovaya RiverCheryomukhovaya, the Yedinka RiverYedinka, the Samarga RiverSamarga, the Bikin RiverBikin, and the Bolshaya Ussurka RiverBolshaya Ussurka.
		The head of the Ussuri River originates 20 km (12 miles) to the East of Oblachnaya Mountain.
		The survivors hid themselves from the Mongolians in the forests, river valleys, and the remote reas of the Amur and Zabaykalye, the Sea of OkhotskOkhotsky coast and parts of Sakhalin/ island.
	www.infothis.com /find/Primorsky_Krai (1749 words)

	The Udege are forest people, and they protect their forest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But the indigenous people of the Ussuri taiga were aware that with the loss of the forest they would not only lose the source of their subsistence, but also their native lands and their culture.
		The first stage of their project is the construction of a road to the upper reaches of the Bikin River where the sacred sources of the river are located.
		If the forest is cut down in the upper reaches of the river, the river will dry up, and the entire unique natural world and the ancient culture of the local residents will disappear.
	www.raipon.org /english/library/ipw/number4/article10.html (1108 words)

	L.G.Kaplanov. Tiger. Deer. Moose.
		Kema River: the upper reaches of the Ta-Kunzha and Taratai Rivers, Pravaya Akhte Stream, Teniguza River, Izyubrevyi Stream, and the Kema River at a distance of 27 km from Yasnaya Polyana.
		Diagram of the travels of a male tiger in the basin of the Kema River from the beginning of December 1940 to February 9, 1941.
		The last tiger in Ternei was killed in 1915 near the confluence of the Sitsa and Tun'sha Rivers by Dyachkovskii, I. Labetskii, and I. Kuklin. This was an adult male which was extremely emaciated, with shriveled musculature and a stomach and intestines that were completely empty.
	www.tigers.ru /books/kaplanov/tigr_en.html (2712 words)

	WWF Global 200 Ecoregions -- Russian Far East Rivers and Wetlands (181)
		The Russian Far East Rivers and Wetlands ecoregion is one of the most diverse freshwater ecoregions in Eurasia, particularly in fish species.
		This mighty river flows for nearly 1,900 miles (3,000 km) from the mountains and down through forests before pouring into the Tartar Strait.
		Logging of surrounding forests also places stress on the rivers and streams of this region, as streamside trees are removed and soil erosion and sedimentation increase.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/g200/g181.html (372 words)

	Russian Far East. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the south are the fertile Amur and Ussuri river valleys.
		Coal is mined in the Buryea River basin and on Sakhalin, whose northern half also contains major oil fields.
		In 1856–57 the Russians took advantage of a weak Chinese empire to occupy all of the territory N of the Amur, and in 1860 they seized the land E of the Ussuri; the People’s Republic of China has denounced the “unequal treaties” by which Russia sought to legitimize these conquests.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ru/RussFarE.html (787 words)

	Original essay about Khabarovsk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The matter is that a group of the Amur islands near Khabarovsk (more than 30 islands, 450 square kilometers in area) situated between the Amur River and Amur Channel, into which the Ussuri River flows, are the subject of the Chinese long-cherished lust.
		The river near Khabarovsk is 2 kilometers wide and its mouth is over 5 kilometers.
		The Amur is a sole Russian River that flows from west to east.
	home.kht.ru /expo/kha-en.htm (1273 words)

	CNN Cold War - Spotlight: Chinese-Soviet border clashes
		It sits in the Ussuri River, the border between northeastern China and Russia's Siberian Far East.
		There had been a series of incidents along the Ussuri River, involving clashes between Soviet and Chinese groups -- in some cases, Soviet river patrols and Chinese fishermen, or Soviet border guards and Chinese demonstrators -- dating back to the mid-1960s.
		In March 1969, following the two Ussuri River incidents, an attempt by Soviet leaders to establish contact with their Chinese counterparts was broken off -- after operators in Beijing refused to put the Soviets through.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/15/spotlight (1183 words)

	Travel East Russia - Khabarovski Krai
		Khabarovsk, population of 690,000, is the capital of the Khabarovski Krai and is a major crossroads of air, railroad and river travel.
		Adjacent is the river beach where many of the river boats take visitors and locals on a trip alongside the Amur.
		The Ussuri Taiga, named after the Ussuri River, is one of the most unusual and species rich temperate forests in the world.
	www.traveleastrussia.com /khabarovski.html (1844 words)

	Main Points of Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov's Speech at the Meeting of the State Duma ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They are island areas - one in the upper reaches of the Argun River (Island Bolshoi) and the other in the area where the Ussuri River empties into the Amur River near Khabarovsk (Islands Tarabarov and Bolshoi Ussurriskiy).
		In the first place, it is the principle of the middle of the main channel for navigable rivers and the middle of the river for nonnavigable rivers.
		That is the border line that arose on the Amur and Ussuri and became customary for us all was not documented by a treaty, including a joint description and the availability of a map.
	www.ln.mid.ru /brp_4.nsf/e78a48070f128a7b43256999005bcbb3/5cebdbd2dd7f6989c32570060046b225?OpenDocument (1304 words)

	Ussuri
		river, c.365 mi (590 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Ulukhe and Daubikhe rivers, S Maritime Territory, Russian Far East.
		It flows N to the Amur River at Khabarovsk, forming part of the Russia-China border.
		In 1991 in a peace gesture, the USSR announced the transfer of some of the islands in the river to Chinese control, and border was finally settled by a Sino-Russian agreement in 2004.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0850234.html (189 words)

	WWF - Environmental organizations unite to protect Russia's virgin forests from logging
		Bikin is not only the biggest tributary of the Ussuri River, but also drains a vast untouched area of taiga.
		The river is abundant in fish and the region is home to the Amur tiger.
		One of the reasons is the consolidation of the biggest environmental organizations of the country and region to protect the upper reaches of Bikin River.
	www.panda.org /news_facts/newsroom/other_news/news.cfm?uNewsID=7402 (472 words)

	Graham's Other writings
		Moscow had insisted the border ran along the Chinese bank of the Amur (Heilongjiang) and Ussuri rivers, marking the boundary of the far northeastern spur of Chinese territory.
		The new Soviet position on the border river question, if accepted by China, would mean that Moscow had relinquished its claim to Chenbao Island, which lies on the Chinese side of the main channel of the Ussuri River, the diplomats said.
		From 1966 to 1977, the Soviet Union refused to allow Chinese ships to sail through the main channel of the Amur River past the Soviet city of Khabarosk on the grounds that the river was a Soviet inland waterway.
	www.earnshaw.com /other_writings/content.cfm?ID=270 (472 words)

	Managing Panthera Tigris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		River Watershed for tigers, for traditional hunting and gathering use by the Udege, and for other resources and peoples.
		Lower Bikin River Valley near the city of Bikin and the Ussuri River.
		Kafen Rivers, tributaries flowing north into the Khor River (itself a westward-flowing tributary of the Ussuri River).
	members.aol.com /tigertrail/report.htm (2661 words)

	Trans-Siberian railway - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The bridge across the Ob River was built in 1898 and the small city Novonikolaevsk, founded in 1883, metamorphosed into a large Siberian center - Novosibirsk city.
		And in the winter sleighs were used to move passengers and cargo from one side of the lake to the other until the completion of the Lake Baikal spur along the southern edge of the lake.
		With the completion of the Amur River line north of the Chinese border in 1916, there was a continuous railway from Petrograd to Vladivostok that remains to this day the world’s longest railway line.
	openproxy.ath.cx /tr/Trans-Siberian_railway.html (688 words)

	Baikov, N.A.The Manchurian Tiger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The tiger was pushed off by colonization, in the Ussuri region, from the eastern and southern parts of the Khanka area, and also from suburbs of Nikolsk, Vladivostok and Posiet, as well as from all southern Korea and its western coast.
		Nevertheless it is necessary to consider the upper reaches of the river Sungari up to the Guiring, the upper river Lalinkhe up to Sang-Khetung, all basin of the river Mudan-Jan, upper reaches of the rivers Muren and Sui-foung as a native land of the Manchurian tiger.
		Besides the hunt on the tiger with a weapon in hands, in the Ussuri krai trappers still practice poisoning the tiger with strychnine, putting the poison encapsulated in wax into the meat, which is then left on the animal's favorite tracks, or into the carcass of the prey killed by the tiger.
	www.tigers.ru /books/baikov/he1.html (11830 words)

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