The history of the development of the Amur Region began exactly 350 years ago. In the middle of the seventeenth century, the first Cossack discoverers embarked on an expedition along the most powerful river of the Far East. In 1858, an agreement was finalized between China and the Russian government regarding the extensive embankment on the northern side. This historical contract was signed by diplomats 35 kilometers from the administrative center of the Amur Region - Blagoveschensk. Blagoveschensk was founded in the same year, and it was named the first capital of the Russian Far East.
The modern-day Amur Region occupies 391,000 square kilometers, making it about the same size as Poland or Japan.
The Amur River, which extends along 1,246 kilometers of the southern border of the Far East is the official dividing line between China and Russia. In the west, north, and east the Amur Region neighbors other Russian regions: the Chita Region, the Republic of Yakutia, the autonomous Jewish Region, and the Khabarovsk Territory. The Amur Region is in the eighth time zone east of the Prime Meridian and is 1,200 kilometers from the temperate Japanese Ocean. It is located 8,000 kilometers from Moscow.