River
Ussuri
897 km from source to mouth · Russia and China.
Russia and ChinaFlows into Amur River
In numbers
Length
897km
Average flow
1,200m³/s
Basin
193,000km²
Drop
619m
from 649 m to 30 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
897 km of river and 29 stops on the way: 15 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 649 m
- 52 kmIzvilinkatributary
- 90 kmChuguyevka13,354 people
- 137 kmPavlovkatributary
- 175 kmZhuravlyovkatributary
- 229 kmOrlinoye1 people
- 247 kmArsenyevka Rivertributary
- 274 kmArkhangelovka57 people
- 277 kmKirovskiy9,467 people
- 306 kmInnokent'evka562 people
- 318 kmTikhmenevo917 people
- 323 kmGlazovka373 people
- 353 kmLesozavodsk34,289 people
- 378 kmSungachatributary
- 390 kmBusse46 people
- 440 kmMuling Rivertributary
- 474 kmBolshaya Ussurka Rivertributary
- 518 kmOzero Peschanoye (lanaw sa Rusya, Primorskiy Kray)0.4 km²
- 573 kmZhenbao Island
- 627 kmBikintributary
- 658 kmKutuzov Island
- 670 kmBiratributary
- 695 kmNaoli Rivertributary
- 704 kmSheremetyevo914 people
- 739 kmVenyukovo603 people
- 782 kmPodkhoryonoktributary
- 789 kmKhor Rivertributary
- 814 kmArgunskoye22 people
- 825 kmKiyatributary
- 861 kmKazakevichevo1,503 people
- 897 kmAmur Riverat 30 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Russia and China
At the mouth it carries 1,150 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 2.2 seconds. It drops from 649 m to 30 m, 0.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 193,000 km², about the size of SN. 4.1 million people live in it. Highest water: from July to October; lowest: from January to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- LesozavodskLargest city on its banks · 34,289 people
- Jixi Xingkaihu Airport (JXA)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 173 km from the city
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Ussuri, month by month
Highest water: from July to October
Lowest water: from January to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 420 m³/s in the lowest month to 3,000 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Ussuri: the basin in numbers
195,047 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 4.1millionpeople live in the basin
- 21/km²people per km²
- 358maverage altitude of the basin
- 717mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 1.9°Caverage air temperature
- 13%protected areas
- 2.3%covered by lakes
- 2%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 67% Forest
- 15% Cropland
- 4% Pasture
- 1% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Ussuri: what you find on the way
- 1Ferry piers
- 2River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.6 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Ussuri in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
3mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ozero Peschanoye (lanaw sa Rusya, Primorskiy Kray)km 4560.4km²
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Mountains at the source (3)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Gra Snezhnaya0.7 km away
- Gora Pereval'naya12 km away
- Gora Ostraya11 km away
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Ussuri in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Amur RiverRussia2,824 km12,800 m³/sTributaries (17)
Also: Bikin, Sungacha, Khor River, Bolshaya Ussurka River, Arsenyevka River, Muling River, Naoli River, Bira, Zhuravlyovka, Pavlovka, Kiya, Podkhoryonok, Izvilinka, Mukhen, Kamenka, Shivki, Kamenushka
In the same basin
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q207777) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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