The Anyuy (), also known as Onyuy (Онюй) or Dondon (Дондон) is a

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in the

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. It is a right

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of the

Amur The Amur River () or Heilong River ( zh, s=黑龙江) is a perennial river in Northeast Asia, forming the natural border between the Russian Far East and Northeast China (historically the Outer Manchuria, Outer and Inner Manchuria). The Amur ...

. It originates on slope of Tordoki Yani in the

Sikhote-Alin The Sikhote-Alin (, , , ) is a mountain range in Primorsky and Khabarovsk Krais, Russia, extending about to the northeast of the Russian Pacific seaport of Vladivostok. The highest summits are Tordoki Yani at above sea level, Ko Mountain () ...

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, and falls into the Amur between

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and

Komsomolsk-on-Amur Komsomolsk-on-Amur ( rus, Комсомольск-на-Амуре, r=Komsomolsk-na-Amure, p=kəmsɐˈmolʲsk nɐ‿ɐˈmurʲə) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, located on the west bank of the Amur R ...

. The length of the Anyuy is . The area of its basin is . The Manoma is a main tributary of the Anyuy.

History

According to French

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geographers travelling on the

Ussuri The Ussuri ( ; ) or Wusuli ( ) is a river that runs through Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krais, Russia and the southeast region of Northeast China in the province of Heilongjiang. It rises in the Sikhote-Alin mountain range, flowing north and formi ...

and the

in 1709, the Dondon River (''Tondon'', in contemporary accounts) formed the border between the lands populated by the people known as ''Yupi Tartars'' (which is the traditional Chinese name for the

Nanai people The Nanai people () are a Tungusic people of East Asia who have traditionally lived along Heilongjiang (Amur), Songhuajiang (Sunggari) and Wusuli River (Ussuri) on the Middle Amur Basin. The ancestors of the Nanai were the Wild Jurchens of no ...

and related groups), living on the Ussury and the Amur south of the Dondon, and the people whose name was transcribed into French as ''Ke tcheng'', living on the Amur from the mouth of the Dondon downstream. Multiple later editions are available, includin
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The latter name may be a transcription of the reported self-name of the Nanais of the lower Amur, ''Hezhe nai'' or ''Hezheni'' Сем Л. И. (L.I. Sem) "Нанайский язык" (Nanai language), // Языки мира. Монгольские языки. Тунгусо-маньчжурские языки. Японский язык. Корейский язык. М.: Индрик, 1997. . Page 174. L.I. Sem gives the self name in Cyrillic, as ''хэǯэ най'' or ''хэǯэны'' which is also the modern Chinese name for the Nanais, ''Hezhe'' or ''Hezhen''. In 1999, a significant portion of the Anyuy basin was incorporated into the creation of Anyuysky National Park, one of the major protected areas of the Russian Federation. File:Stielers Handatlas 1891 62 NE.jpg, The Dondon on an 1891 map File:CEM-44-La-Chine-la-Tartarie-Chinoise-et-le-Thibet-1734-Amur-2572.jpg, The ''Tondon'' River, separating the lands of the ''Yupi'' and ''Ketching'' people on a 1734 French map

References

External links

* Rivers of Khabarovsk Krai {{FarEast-Russia-river-stub