The Bikin () is a river in Primorsky and

Khabarovsk Krai Khabarovsk Krai (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (a krai) of Russia. It is located in the Russian Far East and is administratively part of the Far Eastern Federal District. The administrative centre of the krai is the types of ...

s in

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. It is a right tributary of 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 is long, with a

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...

of . Its main tributaries are the rivers Alchan, Klyuchevaya,

Kontrovod The Kontrovod () is a river in Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is long. It rises in the Strelnikov Range of Sikhote-Alin. The Kontrovod is a left tributary of the Bikin. Luchegorsk was founded on the banks of the river. There is an electric power st ...

and Zeva. The town

Bikin Bikin () is a town in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, located on the river Bikin (a tributary of the Ussuri) southwest of Khabarovsk. Population: 19,000 (1967). History It was founded in 1885 as Bikinskaya and was granted town status in 1938. Adm ...

is situated on the river Bikin. In 2015, a significant portion of the Bikin basin was incorporated into the creation of

Bikin National Park Bikin National Park () was created on November 3, 2015 to protect the largest remaining old-growth mixed forest in the Northern Hemisphere, as well as the territory of 10% of all Amur tigers in the wild. The park was also created for the purpose ...

, one of the major protected areas of the Russian Federation. In 2018, Bikin River Valley was included in the boundaries of the Central

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 () ...

and became a part of the

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