In 1732, after Russia already ceded back most of the Caucasus to Persia, now led by Nader Shah, following the Treaty of Resht, Russian troops clashed again with Chechens in a village called Chechen-aul along the Argun River.
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Russian settlers started in the westernmost valleys of the Tura River, Tobol River, Irtysh River, and Ob River, and marched onwards to the Ket River, Yenisei River, Angara River, Ilim River, Lena River, Shilka River, Argun River, and Amur River.
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Interfax quoted the unnamed diplomat as saying that the agreements envisage dividing in half the Bolshoi Ussuriisky and Tarabaray Islands in the Amur River, near the Far Eastern Russian city of Khabarovsk, and the Bolshoi Island in the Argun River.
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Since around 1900, after the Treaty of Beijing, where Russia gained Outer Manchuria, the east side of the border had mainly been demarcated by three rivers, the Argun River from the triparty junction with Mongolia to the north tip of China, running southwest to northeast, then the Amur River to Khabarovsk from northwest to southeast, where it was joined by Ussuri River running south to north.
