Agzu () is a

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('' selo'') in Terneysky District of

Primorsky Krai Primorsky Krai, informally known as Primorye, is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (a krais of Russia, krai) of Russia, part of the Far Eastern Federal District in the Russian Far East. The types of inhabited localities in Russia, ...

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, located on the Samarga River. Population: 169 (2005 est.), 140 of which are Udege. During the Soviet era it served as a center of bushmeat production with the local people employed to hunt wild game and furs which were exported. This ended with the collapsed of the USSR and the Udege returned to subsistence hunting. Agzu is the northernmost and most isolated inhabited locality of Primorsky Krai.

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Agzu: Island in taiga
Rural localities in Primorsky Krai {{PrimorskyKrai-geo-stub