The Anyuy (russian: река Аню́й), also known as Onyuy (Онюй) or Dondon (Дондон) is a

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of w ...

in the Khabarovsk Krai in

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. It is a right

tributary A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drai ...

of the

Amur The Amur (russian: река́ Аму́р, ), or Heilong Jiang (, "Black Dragon River", ), is the world's tenth longest river, forming the border between the Russian Far East and Northeastern China ( Inner Manchuria). The Amur proper is long, ...

. It originates on slope of

Tordoki Yani Tordoki Yani or Tardoki Yani (russian: Тордоки-Яни) is the highest peak of the Sikhote-Alin Mountains. It is located in the southeast of Khabarovsk Krai to the north of the border of Primorsky Krai. It is a table mountain and rises to an ...

in the Sikhote-Alin

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...

, and falls into the Amur between Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The length of the Anyuy is . The area of its basin is . The

Manoma The Manoma is a river in Khabarovsk Krai, 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 recog ...

is a main tributary of the Anyuy.

History

According to French Jesuit geographers travelling on the

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

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 on the Middle Amur Basin. The ancestors of the Nanai were the Jurchens of northernmost Manc ...

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
on Google Books
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 Anyuysky National Park (russian: Анюйский национальный парк) covers the basin of the Anyuy River, on the west slope of the Central Sikhote-Alin Mountain range in the Russian Far East. The Anyuy flows west into the Amur R ...

, 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

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