is formed by the confluence of the Pravaya Bureya and the Levaya Bureya, The Pravaya Bureya starts on the Ezop Range from its northern slopes of 1,990 m high, the Levaya Bureya flows from the Dusse-Alin Range top (2,175 m). Its length is 739 km (together with the Pravaya Bureya). The largest tributaries are the Usman, the Umalta, the Niman, the Urgal, the Dublikan, the Tuyun, the Yagdynya, the Tyrma.
Bureya is most cold and fast among the large Amur tributaries. That is conditioned by mountain character, permafrost and rigorous climate. In the upper Bureya watershed there are scenic glacier lakes (the Medvezhye, the Gornoye, the Karbokhon, etc.) and striking waterfalls. The dominants forests are larch, Siberian creeping pine, spruce, fir, Daurian rhododendron; sable, brown bear, lynx, wolf, elk, musk deer, northern deer, woodcock, spruce grouse inhabit here.
There is rather few fish in the Bureya river, however the structure of ichthyo-fauna is unique. The most prospective for sports hunting are elk, roe, wood-grouse, hazel-grouse; for fishing - grayling.
The Bureya river itself is considered to be easy for rafting but its tributaries of the Yaurin and the Tuyun and especially the Akishma present a difficulty that way.
The upper Bureya is the oldest gold-mining region, the first gold-placer mine in the Niman river basin was opened in 1872.
The reserve "Bureinsky" was established in the river-head of Bureya in 1988, the federal preserve "Dublikansky" exists since 1981.
The settlement of Shakhtinsky is inhabited by the indigenous peoples, the Evens and the Yakuts.
is formed by the confluence of the Pravaya Bureya and the Levaya Bureya, The Pravaya Bureya starts on the Ezop Range from its northern slopes of 1,990 m high, the Levaya Bureya flows from the Dusse-Alin Range top (2,175 m). Its length is 739 km (together with the Pravaya Bureya). The largest tributaries are the Usman, the Umalta, the Niman, the Urgal, the Dublikan, the Tuyun, the Yagdynya, the Tyrma. 