Most Russian regions are named after their capitals, but Amur Region is an exception, because the Amur River gave it its name. It is the natural border between this far eastern region and China.

The Amur-Heilong region, covering parts of Russia, China and Mongolia, has some of the world’s most intact and extensive ‘temperate’ forests – meaning forests of a rather mild climatic area, that ...

KHABAROVSK, April 17 (Itar-Tass) —— Five forest fires were put out on 65 hectares in the Amur Region over the past ... or joined the sanctions against Russia after the start of a special ...

The capital city of Far East Russia’s Amur region was blanketed under heavy snow on Wednesday, in what officials are calling the “blizzard of the century.” Authorities in Blagoveshchensk ...