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Encyclopedia > Bureya River

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 River (Russian: Амур; Simplified Chinese: 黑龙江; Traditional Chinese: 黑龍江; Hanyu Pinyin: , 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 Bureya River is a tributary of the Amur River that originates in the Russian Bureya Mountain Range. ...


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Khabarovsk Krai Government site - Tourism and Recreation - The Bureya River (265 words)
Bureya is most cold and fast among the large Amur tributaries.
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.
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