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Khummi
Lake Khummi (), also known as Khomi (Хоми), is a large freshwater lake in Komsomolsky District, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It has an area of and a maximum depth of . The lake is part of the Amur river basin and lies near Komsomolsk-on-Amur, to the southeast of the city. The village of Selikhino, as well as a tourist resort, are located by the lakeshore.Google Earth The name of the lake originated in a Nanai word for "sandy sediment", "dead hollow" or "tiger's lair". History Remains of ancient pottery of the Late Pleistocene period have been found at an archaeological site by the lake. In 1997 a section of the banks of the lake was declared a protected area. Geography Khummi is one of the largest lakes of Khabarovsk Krai and the 103rd lake in Russia in water surface. The lake is located in the Amur river floodplain and is connected to it by several channels. During floods the waters of the Amur fill the lake and increase its area. Khummi has a roughly triangular shape with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selikhino
Selikhino ( rus, Селихино) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Komsomolsky District of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. Population: Geography Selikhino is located by lake Khummi, on the Baikal-Amur Mainline railway, shortly after the railway leaves Komsomolsk-on-Amur towards Sovetskaya Gavan. History Selikhino was the junction station for a railway built in the early 1950s by the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ..., intended to link to a tunnel to the island of Sakhalin. Construction of the tunnel was abandoned after Stalin's death; however, the railway had already been built as far as Chyorny Mys; this section was kept open for logging industry traffic until the 1990s. References {{Authority control Rural localities i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komsomolsky District, Khabarovsk Krai
Komsomolsky District (russian: Комсомо́льский райо́н) is an administrativeResolution #143-pr and municipalLaw #194 district (raion), one of the seventeen in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the southern central part of the krai. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: Geography The Amur river flows by the city. Lake Khummi is located to the southeast of the city.Google Earth Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Komsomolsky District is one of the seventeen in the krai. The city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur serves as its administrative center An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khabarovsk Krai
Khabarovsk Krai ( rus, Хабаровский край, r=Khabarovsky kray, p=xɐˈbarəfskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia. It is geographically located in the Russian Far East and is a part of the Far Eastern Federal District. The administrative centre of the krai is the city of Khabarovsk, which is home to roughly half of the krai's population and the largest city in the Russian Far East (just ahead of Vladivostok). Khabarovsk Krai is the fourth-largest federal subject by area, and has a population of 1,343,869 as of 2010. The southern region lies mostly in the basin of the lower Amur River, with the mouth of the river located at Nikolaevsk-on-Amur draining into the Strait of Tartary, which separates Khabarovsk Krai from the island of Sakhalin. The north occupies a vast mountainous area along the coastline of the Sea of Okhotsk, a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. Khabarovsk Krai is bordered by Magadan Oblast to the north, Amur Oblast, Jew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, and has a drainage basin of . ''mizu'' ("water") in Japanese. The name "Amur" may have evolved from a root word for water, coupled with a size modifier for "Big Water". Its ancient Chinese names were ''Yushui'', ''Wanshui'' and ''Heishui'', formed from variants to ''shui'', meaning "water".The fishes of the Amur River:updated check-list and zoogeography'' The modern Chinese name for the river, ''Heilong Jiang'' means "Black Dragon River", while the Manchurian name ''Sahaliyan Ula'', the Mongolian names " Amar mörön " (Cyrillic: Амар мөрөн) originates from the name " Amar " meaning to rest and ''Khar mörön'' (Cyrillic: Хар мөрөн) mean Black River. Course The river rises in the hills in the western part of Northeast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Lakes Of Russia
List of lakes in Russia in alphabetical order: * Arakhley (Арахле́й) *Baikal (Байкал) * Baunt (Баунт) * Beloye, Ryazan Oblast (Белое) * Beloye, Vologda Oblast (Белое) *Bokon (Бокон) * Bolshoye Morskoye (Большое Морское) * Bolshoye Toko (Большое Токо) *Bolshoy Yeravna (Большо́е Ера́вное) * Bolshoye Topolnoye (Большое Топольное) * Botkul (Боткуль) * Brosno (Бросно) * Busani (Бусани) * Bustakh (Бустах) *Caspian Sea (Каспийское море) * Chany (Чаны) * Chukchagir (Чукчагирское) * Chyortovo (Чёртово) *Dorong (Доронг) *Lake Dynda (Дында) *Ebeyty (Эбейты) * Ekityki (Экитыки) * Elgygytgyn (Эльгыгы́тгын) * Emanda (Эмандьа) *Evoron (Эвopон) * Eyik (Эйик) *Ilirney (Илирней) * Ilmen (Ильмень) * Imandra (Имандра) * Ioni (Иони) * Isinga (Исинга) * Ivan-Arakhley Lake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komsomolsk-on-Amur
Komsomolsk-on-Amur ( rus, Комсомольск-на-Амуре, r=Komsomolsk-na-Amure, p=kəmsɐˈmolʲsk nɐɐˈmurʲə) is a city in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, located on the west bank of the Amur River in the Russian Far East. It is located on the Baikal-Amur Mainline, northeast of Khabarovsk. Population: Geography The city and its suburbs stretch for over along the left bank of the Amur River. The river at this point is up to wide. Lake Khummi is located southeast of the city.Google Earth The distance to Khabarovsk—the administrative center of the krai—is ; to the Pacific Ocean—about . The nearest other major town is Amursk, about south. It is about east of Moscow, and lies at the eastern end of the BAM Railway. History The future site of Komsomolsk-on-Amur was conquered by the Mongols in the 13th century, becoming part of the Mongol Empire under the Mongol Yuan Dynasty. It was later held by the Manchus until the area was ceded to the Russian Empire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across eleven time zones and shares land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than any other country but China. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and largest city is Moscow, the largest city entirely within Europe. Saint Petersburg is Russia's cultural centre and second-largest city. Other major urban areas include Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan. The East Slavs emerged as a recognisable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries CE. Kievan Rus' arose as a state in the 9th century, and in 988, it adopted Orthodox Christianity from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masu Salmon
The masu salmon (''Oncorhynchus masou''), also known as masu ( ja, マス, , trout) or in Japan, is a species of salmon belonging to the genus '' Oncorhynchus'', found in the North Pacific along Northeast/East Asian coasts from the Russian Far East ( Primorsky, Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin and Kuril Islands) to south through Korea, Japan and Taiwan. A number of subspecies are known, including the widespread nominate subspecies ''yamame'' (''O. m. masou''), the critically endangered Formosan salmon (''O. m. formosanus'') found in certain landlocked freshwater systems of Taiwan, the Biwa trout (''O. m. rhodurus'') endemic of Lake Biwa, and the anadromous or stream-dwelling '' amago'' (''O. m. macrostomus'') restricted to western Japan. On average, this salmon prefers a temperate climate around the latitude of 65-58°N, and in the sea, it prefers a depth of . Appearance A masu salmon which has reached sexual maturity has a darkened back, and the stripes on the body sides b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Carp
The black carp (''Mylopharyngodon piceus'') or Chinese black roach is a species of cyprinid freshwater fish and the sole extant species of the genus ''Mylopharyngodon''. It is native to lakes and rivers in East Asia, ranging from the Amur Basin across China to Vietnam. One of the largest cyprinids in the world, the black carp has a typical length of , though it can reach up to in length and in weight. It is carnivorous and generally feeds on invertebrates such as snails, clams and mussels. Black carp, together with bighead carp, silver carp, and grass carp, make up the culturally important " four famous domestic fishes" used in polyculture in China for over a thousand years. It has also been introduced in the United States as one of the invasive " Asian carps", though it is not as widely distributed worldwide as the other three. In China, black carp is widely cultivated for food and Chinese medicine, being one of the most highly esteemed and expensive domestic food f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Amur Bream
The black Amur bream (''Megalobrama terminalis'') is a species of freshwater cyprinid fish in the genus ''Megalobrama''. Geographic distribution It is found in the basin of the Amur, Ussuri, Sungari Rivers, and in Lake Khanka Lake Khanka (russian: о́зеро Ха́нка) or Lake Xingkai (), is a freshwater lake on the border between Primorsky Krai, Russia and Heilongjiang province, Northeast China (at ). Etymology On the Delisle map of 1706, the lake is named .... Footnotes * References Megalobrama Fish described in 1846 {{Cultrinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Perch
''Siniperca chuatsi'', the mandarin fish (,), is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish from the family Sinipercidae, the Oriental perches. It is the type species of the genus ''Siniperca'' (Chinese perches). Description ''Siniperca chautsi'' has a body which is compressed with a protruding lower jaw and the maxilla reaching behind the eyes. The jaws are armed with rows of saw-like teeth. Lower jaw with 4–5 large sharp rays. There are two flat, sharp spines on the posterior margin of the operculum. It has small, round scales. It has a shiny brownish-yellow body marked with randomly situated coloured blotches and spots. They usually have black or dark grey stripes which run from their lips and run through the eyes over the lateral line but do not reach the back. It has a dorsal fin with the front part containing many hard spines with the rearmost having rounded tips. They have rounded pectoral, anal and caudal fins. There are three sharp spines situated in front of both pelvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Data Book Of The Russian Federation
''Red Data Book of the Russian Federation'' (''RDBRF''), also known as ''Red Book'' (russian: Красная книга) or ''Russian Red Data Book'', is a state document established for documenting rare and endangered species of animals, plants and fungi, as well as some local subspecies (such as the Ladoga seal) that exist within the territory of the Russian Federation and its continental shelf and marine economic zone. The book has been adopted by Russia to enact a common agreement on rare and endangered species protection. Conservation The book provides a central information source in organizing studies and monitoring programs on rare and endangered species and their habitats. History The first Russian ''Red Data Book'' was based upon research conducted between 1961 and 1964 by a number of Soviet biologists. It represented the Soviet part of the IUCN Red List (hence the name). At that time it was just the Soviet Union's first organized list of endangered species, not a leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
