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The Bureya River is a tributary of the Amur River that originates in the Russian Bureya Mountain Range. The Bureya itself is formed from the Pravaya Bureya and the Levaya Bureya. Its length is 716 km. The Amur (Russian: Амур) (Simplified Chinese: 黑龙江; Traditional Chinese: 黑龍江; Hēilóng Jiāng, literally meaning Black Dragon River) (Mongolian: Хара-Мурэн, Khara-Muren or Black River) (Manchu: Sahaliyan Ula, literal meaning Black River) is one of the worlds ten longest rivers, located between the Russian Far East and Manchuria of...


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Khabarovsk Krai Government site - Tourism and Recreation - The Bureya River (265 words)
The Bureya river itself is considered to be easy for rafting but its tributaries of the Yaurin and the Tuyun and especially the Akishma present a difficulty that way.
The upper Bureya is the oldest gold-mining region, the first gold-placer mine in the Niman river basin was opened in 1872.
The reserve "Bureinsky" was established in the river-head of Bureya in 1988, the federal preserve "Dublikansky" exists since 1981.
Amur - LoveToKnow 1911 (620 words)
It includes the basins of the Oldoi, Zeya and Bureya, left-bank tributaries of the river Amur, and has the governments of Transbaikalia on the W., Irkutsk and Yakutsk on the N., the Maritime province on the E., and Manchuria on the S. and S. Area, 172,848 sq.
All the north-western part is occupied by a high plateau, bordered by the Great Khingan range, whose exact position in the region is not yet definitely settled.
Next comes a belt of fertile plateaus bounded on the east by the Little Khingan, or Dusse-alin, a picturesque well-wooded range, which stretches in a north-easterly direction from Kirin across Manchuria, is pierced by the Amur, and continues on its left bank, separating the Bureya from the Amgun.
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