Tyr () is a settlement in Ulchsky District of Khabarovsk Krai,

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, located on the right bank of the Amur River, near the mouth of the Amgun River, about upstream from Nikolayevsk-on-Amur. Tyr has been known as a historically Nivkh ("Gilyak") village, since no later than the mid-19th century.E. G. Ravenstein.
The Russians on the Amur
'. London, 1861. ( E. G. Ravenstein did not visit the area himself, but compiled his book based on the accounts of mostly Russian expeditions in the area from the 1850s) Tyr's main claim to fame is that its location had been visited by both Yuan and

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expeditions, which sailed down the Sungari and Amur Rivers to establish a foothold in this region. Both times the visitors built temples and monuments on the spectacular Tyr Cliff south of today's settlement. The remains of the Yuan era temple unearthed at the site by modern archaeologists date to the 1260s, while the two Ming temples, built during the Amur expeditions by the admiral eunuch Yishiha, were constructed in 1413 and 1433–1434, respectively.A. R. Artemyev.
Archaeological sites of Yuan and Ming epochs in Transbaikalia and the Amur basin
' The Ming dynasty stelae and a column, put at the Tyr cliff by Yishiha, could still be seen ''in situ'' by the members of Russian Amur expeditions in the 1850s, but in the late 19th century the stelae were moved to the Arsenyev Museum in Vladivostok after the Amur Annexation by the

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. A number of archaeological excavations have been conducted at the site since.Объекты туризма — Археологические. Тырские храмы
(Regional government site explaining the location of the Tyr (Telin) temples: just south of the Tyr village)

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{{Coord, 52, 56, N, 139, 46, E, display=title Rural localities in Khabarovsk Krai