Khabarovsk Regional Branch

The Khabarovsk Regional branch of the Russian Geographical Society was founded in 1894. The impetus for this was scientific expeditions to the Far East, conducted since the middle of the XIX century.

In the XX and XXI centuries, the most important expeditions of the Department were the journey of Vladimir Klavdievich Arsenyev through the southern Primorye in 1902-1903 and along Sikhote-Alin in 1906-1910, the first complex Horsko-Anoi expedition in 1946, the discovery and study of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite in 1947 by members of the Russian Geographical Society Viktor Andreevich Yarmolyuk and Vadim Viktorovich Onikhimovsky, comprehensive study of the islands of the Khabarovsk Archipelago in 1993-2005. Expeditions took place to the island of Jonah, to Lake Mukhtel, along the Sungari River. In the early 1990s, Amur was studied. The impetus was the demarcation of the eastern section of the Russian-Chinese border and the inevitable territorial losses of the islands associated with it. Ecological and geographical studies of the Bolshoy Ussuriysky and Tarabarov Islands near Khabarovsk were organized.