Most Russians are familiar with the Amur River only in the old song, "On the high banks of the Amur Homeland hour stand!" Yes, and it was mostly older people.Youth in the best case heard that somewhere, far away, whether in Siberia, where it is not clear whether there would be this kind of river.Meanwhile, the Amur River is one of the largest waterways not only in Russia but also in the world.The area of the Amur River basin, for example, is 1,855,000 square kilometers.This is the fourth place in Russia and the tenth - in the world.Fifty-four percent of the basin is located in Russia.Many other rivers, whose names are much more "untwisted" have a much smaller catchment area.The length of the river - nearly three thousand kilometers.Maximum width - five kilometers and the depth - fifty-six meters!
Power Amur River filled with water mainly during the monsoon rains.Meltwater in the balance sheet of the Amur is only twenty-five percent of the runoff.Because of the hydrobalance Amur River has two peaks - summer and autumn.During the summer the river rises to three or four meters, and in the fall much more - up to fifteen meters.At this time, the Amur River in breadth may be poured up to twenty kilometers!
Cupid is the habitat of valuable food fish.Here it is found a large number of fish like salmon - pink salmon, chum salmon, and sturgeon - Kaluga sturgeon and sea.And fish are not just a lot, but very much like any of the Far East or the North River.
But in recent years there has been a problem that can significantly reduce a fish population, and cause considerable harm to the person.It is a violation of the ecological balance in the Amur basin.Environmental problems of the Amur River has caused attention to her ecologists three countries located in its basin - Russia, China and Mongolia.
particularly acute problem has reached in the nineties, when Russia understandably environmental control almost nothing in control and rapidly developing China was not up to the problems of northern rivers.But common sense, fortunately, still prevailed.If at the end of the nineties, even meat Amur fish due to the high content of harmful substances has been a kind of "pharmacy" smell, the six or seven years, the situation has improved.Although the Chinese industry is still developing rapidly, discharges of hazardous substances into the river stopped.Now ecologists more worrying activities of agricultural enterprises of our southern neighbor.
Chinese in pursuit of productivity used a large number of chemicals, including those that are banned for import and use in Russia.Spring and flood waters washed away the fertilizer from the fields into the Amur.But the river is surely shared!
Despite some improvement, the Amur River continues to be a headache environmentalists and residents of the Far East region.Everyone remembered the case when in 2005 because of an accident in the Chinese chemical plant in the river washed away a large amount of nitrobenzene and nitrobenzina.Giant toxic slick moved down the Songhua River - one of the tributaries of the Amur.A few days later the spot reached the Amur River, and a month later - Khabarovsk.And in summer 2008, local residents discovered an oil slick on the Amur.Origin to install and failed.
