Anyuy (Amur) Explained

Anyuy
Pushpin Map:Russia
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of mouth
Source1:Tordoki Yani
Source1 Location:Nanaysky District
Source1 Coordinates:48.248°N 137.697°W
Source1 Elevation:1367m (4,485feet)
Mouth:Amur
Mouth Location:Naikhin, Khabarovsk Krai
Mouth Coordinates:49.2997°N 136.4464°W
Mouth Elevation:17m (56feet)
Subdivision Type1:Country
Subdivision Name1:Russia
Length:393km (244miles)
Basin Size:12700km2

The Anyuy (Russian: река Аню́й), also known as Onyuy (Онюй) or Dondon (Дондон) is a river in the Khabarovsk Krai in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Amur. It originates on slope of Tordoki Yani in the Sikhote-Alin mountain range, and falls into the Amur between Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

The length of the Anyuy is 393km (244miles). The area of its basin is 12700km2. The Manoma is a main tributary of the Anyuy.

History

According to French Jesuit geographers travelling on the Ussuri 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 downstream.[1] The latter name may be a transcription of the reported self-name of the Nanais of the lower Amur, Hezhe nai or Hezheni [2] 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, one of the major protected areas of the Russian Federation.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Du Halde, Jean-Baptiste. Jean-Baptiste Du Halde. Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise. IV. P.G. Lemercier. Paris. 1735. 7. Multiple later editions are available, including on Google Books.
  2. 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