Amur

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The Amur River or Heilong Jiang is the Earth's ninth longest river, forming the border between the Russian Far East and Northeastern China.

History and context In many historical references these two geopolitical entities are known as Outer Manchuria (Russian Manchuria) and Inner Manchuria, respectively. 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.

The Amur River is a very important symbol of — and an important geopolitical factor in — Chinese-Russian relations. The Amur was especially important in the period of time following the Sino-Soviet political split in the 1960s.

The name Black River was used by the Manchu and the Qing Dynasty who always regarded this river as sacred.

The economy of the Amur Basin includes manufacturing, metallurgy, iron mining, non-ferrous metals, gold, coal, hydroelectricity, wheat, millet, soybeans, fishing, timber and Chinese-Russian trade. The Daqing oilfield, which is the world's 4th-largest oilfield, is located near Daqing City in Heilongjiang, a few hundred kilometers from the river.

Direction Flowing across northeast Asia for over 4,444 kilometre (2,700 mile), from the mountains of northeastern China to the Sea of Okhotsk (near Nikolayevsk-na-Amure), it drains a remarkable watershed that includes diverse landscapes of desert, steppe, tundra, and taiga, eventually emptying into the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Tartary, where the mouth of the river faces the northern end of the island of Sakhalin. The Amur has always been closely associated with Sakhalin, and most names for the island, even in the languages of the indigenous peoples of the region, are derived from the name of the river: "Sakhalin" derives from a Tungusic languages dialectal form cognate with Manchu sahaliyan ("black," as in sahaliyan ula, "Black River"), while Ainu and Japanese "Karaputo" or "Karafuto" is derived from the Ainu language name of the Amur or its mouth.

The average annual discharge varies from 6000 m³/s (1980) - 12000 m³/s (1957), leading to an average 9819 m³/s or 310 km³ per year. The maximum runoff measured occurred in Oct 1951 with 30700 m³/s whereas the minimum discharge was recorded in March 1946 with a mere 514 m³/s.

Tributaries The Amur proper is 2,874 km long after the junction of two rivers:

Northern tributary: the Shilka River, originating from the eastern slopes of the Khentii Mountains in Mongolia.
Southern tributary: the Argun River, Asia, originating on the western slopes of the Great Khingan Range (大興安嶺) in northeast China.

The Shilka and the Argun join at Moguhe Village (洛古河村), in western Mohe County (漠河县) in Heilongjiang Province, China, and become the Amur proper.

Major tributaries are:

the Shilka River,
the Argun River, Asia,
the Zeya River,
the Bureya River,
the Songhua River,
the Ussuri River,
the Amgun River

The Amur is bordered by Heilongjiang province of China in the south, and Amur Oblast, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, and Khabarovsk Krai of Russia in the north. The final stretch of the Amur passes through Khabarovsk Krai. It passes by the following cities:

Huma County (China, south bank)
Blagoveshchensk (Russia, north bank)
Heihe (China, south bank)
Jiayin (China, south bank)
Tongjiang (China, south bank)
Fuyuan (China, south bank)
Khabarovsk (Russia, south bank)
Komsomolsk-na-Amure (Russia, north bank)
Amursk (Russia, north bank)
Nikolayevsk-na-Amure (Russia, north bank)

Amur Bridge Project Valery Solomonovich Gurevich, government vice-chairman of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast said that China and Russia will start construction of the Amur Bridge Project at the end of 2007. The bridge will link Nizhneleninskoye in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast with Tongjiang in Heilongjiang Province. The 2,197-meter-long bridge, with an estimated investment of nearly US$230 million, is expected to be finished by the end of 2010, Gurevich said. Gurevich said that the proposal to construct a bridge across the river was actually made by Russia, in view of growing cargo transportation demands. "The bridge, in the bold estimate, will be finished in three years," Gurevich said.

Trivia

A reference was made to this river in the 2003 film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film).
In a Role-playing game game namely Suikoden III, Amur is one of the regions in Grasslands (Suikoden).
The district Amuri in Tampere has gotten its name after battles at river Amur during the Russo-Japanese war.
Good descriptions by Anton Chekhov - available in Penguin Great Journeys