Anyuy River (Khabarovsk Krai)
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Anyuy River also known as Onyuy River (Онюй) or Dondon River (Дондон) is a river
River
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 in the Khabarovsk Krai
Khabarovsk Krai
Khabarovsk Krai is a federal subject of Russia , located in the Russian Far East. It lies mostly in the basin of the lower Amur River, but also occupies a vast mountainous area along the coastline of the Sea of Okhotsk, an arm of the Pacific Ocean. The administrative center of the krai is the...

 in Russia
Russia
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. It is a right tributary
Tributary
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 of the Amur River. It originates on slope of Tordoki Yani
Tordoki Yani
Tordoki Yani or Tardoki Yani is the highest peak of Sikhote-Alin Mountains. It is located in the southeast of Khabarovsk Krai to north of border of Primorsky Krai.An elevation of Tordoki Yani is 2,090 m .Tordoki Yani is a table mountain....

 in the Sikhote-Alin
Sikhote-Alin
The Sikhote-Alin is a mountain range in Primorsky and Khabarovsk Krais, Russia, extending about 900 km to the northeast of the Russian Pacific seaport of Vladivostok...

 mountain range
Mountain range
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, and falls into the Amur between Khabarovsk
Khabarovsk
Khabarovsk is the largest city and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located some from the Chinese border. It is the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Vladivostok. The city became the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia...

 and Komsomolsk-on-Amur
Komsomolsk-on-Amur
Komsomolsk-on-Amur is a city in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, situated on the left bank of Amur River. It is located on the BAM railway line, northeast of Khabarovsk. Population: -Geography and climate:...

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The length of the Anyuy River is 393 km. The area of its basin
Drainage basin
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 is 12,700 km². The Manoma River is a main tributary of the Anuyu River.

History

According to French Jesuit geographers travelling on the Ussury and the Amur 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 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 downsream. The latter name may be a transcription of the reported self-name of the Nanais of the lower Amur, Hezhe nai or Hezheni and with the modern Chinese name for the Nanais, Hezhe or Hezhen.
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