Agzu

47°35′30″N 138°23′25″E / 47.59167°N 138.39028°E / 47.59167; 138.39028

Street of Agzu Village

Agzu (Russian: Агзу́) is a village (selo) in Terneysky District of Primorsky Krai, Russia, located on the Samarga River. Population: 169 (2005 est.), 140 of which are Udege. During the Soviet era it served as a center of bushmeat production with the local people employed to hunt wild game and furs which were exported.[1] This ended with the collapsed of the USSR and the Udege returned to subsistence hunting.[1]

Agzu is the northernmost and most isolated inhabited locality of Primorsky Krai.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Jonathan C. Slaght (2020). Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.


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