Amur

In time the Amur was being described as Russia's Mississippi, and the Amur basin made out to be a new California.

But it was the Amur river, Muraviev insisted, on which Russia's manifest destiny flowed.

Out on the river, Chinese fishermen zip around in speedboats, looking for the giant but elusive Amur sturgeon.

By the mid-1600s Russians had reached the Sea of Okhotsk, floated down the Amur and passed through the strait dividing Asia from America.

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The Amur tiger is also noted for its thick coat, distinguished by a paler golden hue and a smaller number of stripes.

Yesterday, cruising down the Amur, Captain Alexander Udenka pointed out to the Observer the border between China and Russia.

On November 6, the Russian president signed a decree on the construction of a new space center, to be named Vostochny, in the Amur Region.

The Chinese are said to be swarming across the Amur river to carry off raw materials and women.

Others tuck into a tasty lunch of silver carp caught from the Amur, or pork dumplings.

He looks arrogantly across the Amur towards China, a telescope in his folded arms.

Their early overlords, the Mongols, ruling China as the Yuan dynasty, sailed to the Amur's mouth and crossed to Sakhalin.

As with the South China, Malayan, Indochinese and Sumatran tigers, the main threat to the Amur tiger is poaching.

The US and China also saw eye to eye in 1969, when the Soviet Union and China looked close to going to war at the Amur River.

Russian television showed a film of the jet undergoing its trial flight from an airfield at Sukhoi's production plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

A couple of years later, under Reagan, US officials were reviewing Chinese (People's Liberation Army) troops on the Amur River.

Putin thanked Western researchers for being involved in programs to save the Amur tigers.

The Amur leopard is critically endangered due to habitat loss and poaching for its spotted coat.

The 174 square kilometers of territory are on China's northeastern border near the Heilongjiang or Amur River.

Newcomers include Japanese knotweed and Amur bush honeysuckle.

The lignin structures and capabilities of reed and amur silver grass were studied and compared.

The auto catalytic reaction of amur silver grass ethanol pulping was studied .

"Essentially these are the key habitat areas for the Amur tiger, " Smirnov told AFP by phone from the regional capital Vladivostok.

On this fast-flowing source of life for many animals lives the Amur leopard.

Soon another argument was being made for the Amur.

After the final storming of Albazino, Kangxi sent word that if Russia would withdraw from the Amur, China would open trade in furs and more.

Yet high Moscow officials objected to Russia tweaking China's Amur tail.

People usually come here to bathe in clean waters of the Amur Bay.

Next door, across the Amur river in north-eastern China, there are 107 million Chinese.

For nearly two centuries the treaty deflected Russian energies from the Amur, but they eventually came back.

Deep in the wilderness in the far eastern region of Russia is the Amur River.

The Amur tiger is the largest and heaviest of all naturally-occurring felines.

Which is an area along the Amur River, which is up here.

The Amur tiger, or white Siberian tiger, flirted with extinction in 1930, when numbers fell to roughly 20 remaining animals.

And so, today, the undeveloped Amur is a glorious exception to other rivers. The closer to the mouth, the more remote it feels.

Uncut stands of timber and unplundered gold fire new dreams of Amur riches.

Experts put the population of wild Amur tigers at 450, with about 30 poached each year.

But quickly the Amur dream soured, and Muraviev's star fell.

According to the Los Angeles Times, fewer than 40 Amur leopards exist in the wild in Russia.

In 1649 another Cossack adventurer, Yerofei Khabarov, came to the Amur.

And so, today, the undeveloped Amur is a glorious exception to other rivers.

From here, there is a stunning view of the Amur river and Russia.

But it's also called the Amur Falcon.

And it's called the Amur Falcon because it breeds in Amurland.

Hematological parameters of Amur sturgeon, Acipenser schrencki, during different salinity domestication

Lysozyme Levels in Serum and Different Tissues of Amur Sturgeon at Different Temperatures in Normal and Pathological Status

Reasons and Countermeasures on Low Survival Rate of Breeding Larval and Juvenile Amur Sturgeon Acipenser schrenckii

Identification of polymorphic microsatellite DNA loci and paternity testing of Amur tigers

Critically endangered Amur leopards on video in Russia's far east, caught in 'video trap' footage by the WWF

Effects of Light Intensity on Growth and Antioxidant Enzyme Activities of Amur Corktree Seedlings

Haematological biochemistry of amur sturgeon, Acipenser schrenckii, at different domestication salinities

Technical measure for the improvement and stabilization of the defecation level of Amur Grape wine

Effects of Different Chemicals on Cutting Propagation of Tender Branch for Golden Leaf Amur Ninebark

Preliminary study on acclimatization of juvenile Amur sturgeon Acipenser schrenckii to formulated feed

Investigation and Analysis on Present Condition of Wild Amur Tigers in Suiyang District

Cultivating Technology of Timber-Forest of Amur Linden for Commercial Veneers

Survey of Endoparasites Infection in Feline Animals in the Heilong jiang Amur Tiger Park, China

Effect of Water Stress on the Growth and Biomass Characteristics of Amur Silvergrass at the Elongation Stage

Molecular cloning and the sequences analysis of the prion protein gene in Amur tiger

Economic Evaluation of Amur Tiger Conservation in China: A Case Study of Residents'Willingness to Pay in Harbin

Changes of Lignin during Auto-catalyzed Ethanol Pulping of Amur Silvergrass

Effects of different saltwater acclimation on growth and feeding of Amur sturgeon Acipenser schrenckii

Evaluation of Nutritive Compositions in Amur Sturgeon Acipenser schrenckii in Muscles, Skin and Fins

Distribution Pattern of Principal Medicinal Constituents in Amur Corktree

The Mixture Ratio of Stabilizing Solution for Red Pigment from Red Leaves of Amur Maple

The Wild Population Monitor of Amur Tiger in Heilongjiang Province

An Investigation into Extraction of Resveratrol from Amur Grape Vine with SFE and Other Methods

Effects of water stress on berberine, jatrorrhizine and palmatine contents in amur corktree seedlings

A note report on artificial reproduction of Amur sturgeon Acipenser schrencki

Determination on hydrochloric berberine of Amur corktree bark

Changes of medicinal alkaloids distribution and content of one-year-old seedlings of amur corktree

Behavior and Activity Rhythm of Captive Amur Tiger in Spring

Amur Sturgeon Fry Rearing with Formulated Feed

Gonadal development of cultured Amur sturgeon Acipenser schrenckii

Embryonic and larval development of Amur sturgeon Acipenser schrenckii

Time budget of young Amur tiger in captivity

Treatment Method Of Amur Linden Seeds

Dusky Thrush and Amur Corktree in Nature Ecosystem

The Regression Analysis Between Body Weight and Body Measurement of 0. 5 Year Amur Tiger

Comparison of oxygen consumption and asphyxial point in juvenile Amur sturgeon Acipenser schrenckii between sea water and fresh water