Agzu (russian: Агзу́) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

('' selo'') in

Terneysky District Terneysky District (russian: Терне́йский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #161-KZ and municipalLaw #133-KZ district (raion, one of the twenty-two in Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is located in the north of the krai and borders with K ...

Primorsky Krai Primorsky Krai (russian: Приморский край, r=Primorsky kray, p=prʲɪˈmorskʲɪj kraj), informally known as Primorye (, ), is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, located in the Far East region of the country and is a part of t ...

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eigh ...

, located on the

Samarga River The Samarga (russian: Самарга) is the northernmost river in the Primorsky Krai territory in the far eastern part of Russia. It is long, and has a drainage basin of , making it the largest coastal river in the northern Sikhote-Alin mounta ...

. 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