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Tyr, Russia
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<p>Tyr is a <a href="/facts/Types_of_inhabited_localities_in_Russia/jsrpqXhI">settlement</a> in <a href="/facts/Ulchsky_District/gc7F1BCb">Ulchsky District</a> of <a href="/facts/Khabarovsk_Krai/jx4uU4RM">Khabarovsk Krai</a>, <a href="/facts/Russia/jfkCwyxn">Russia</a>, located on the right bank of the <a href="/facts/Amur_River/JeIkRTUg">Amur River</a>, near the mouth of the <a href="/facts/Amgun_River/BH8kGQ74">Amgun River</a>, about 100 kilometers (60 mi) upstream from <a href="/facts/Nikolayevsk-on-Amur/4nyq6Fpn">Nikolayevsk-on-Amur</a>. </p><p>Tyr has been known as a historically <a href="/facts/Nivkh_people/6MQUNsFu">Nivkh</a> ("Gilyak") village, since no later than the mid-19th century. </p><p>Tyr's main claim to fame is that its location had been visited by both <a href="/facts/Yuan_dynasty/mQl0o0XN">Yuan</a> and <a href="/facts/Ming_dynasty/p3bSVwUH">Ming dynasty</a> expeditions, which sailed down the <a href="/facts/Songhua_River/sqIEFVED">Sungari</a> and <a href="/facts/Amur_River/JeIkRTUg">Amur Rivers</a> to establish a foothold in this region. Both times the visitors built temples and monuments on the spectacular Tyr Cliff south of today's settlement. </p><p>The remains of the Yuan era temple unearthed at the site by modern archaeologists date to the 1260s, while the two Ming temples, built during the Amur expeditions by the admiral eunuch <a href="/facts/Yishiha/UQSQhSAt">Yishiha</a>, were constructed in 1413 and 1433–1434, respectively. </p><p>The <a href="/facts/Yongning_Temple_Stele/t2m3wxJJ">Ming dynasty stelae and a column</a>, put at the Tyr cliff by Yishiha, could still be seen <i>in situ</i> by the members of Russian Amur expeditions in the 1850s, but in the late 19th century the stelae were moved to the Arsenyev Museum in <a href="/facts/Vladivostok/NQQrTaMY">Vladivostok</a> after the <a href="/facts/Amur_Annexation/zHXcIwb2">Amur Annexation</a> by the <a href="/facts/Russian_Empire/hg1g5SpV">Russian Empire</a>. A number of archaeological excavations have been conducted at the site since. </p> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tyr monuments. <p> <a href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Tyr,_Russia¶ms=52_56_N_139_46_E_">52°56′N 139°46′E / 52.933°N 139.767°E / 52.933; 139.767</a> </p>