Bureya River

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Bureya River (Бурея)
Country	Russia
Length	623 km (387 mi)
Watershed	70,700 km² (27,297 sq mi)
Discharge at	Mouth
- average	940 m³/s (33,196 cu ft/s)
- maximum	18,100 m³/s (639,195 cu ft/s)
Mouth
- location	Amur river

The Bureya River (Russian: Бурея) is a 623km long south-flowing tributary of the Amur River. Its name comes from the Evenk word birija, meaning river. It is formed from the junction of the Pravaya (right) Bureya and the Levaya (left) Bureya.

Its basin is bounded by: west: Turana Range and Zeya River, south: Amur River, east: Bureinskiy Range, Urmi River and Amgun River, north: Ezop Range and several rivers that flow northeast into the Sea of Okhotsk.

There are no cities on the river, the largest settlements on the river are Novy Urgal on the Baikal Amur Mainline and, Novobureysky and Bureya, both on the Trans-Siberian Railway. The Tyrma River is a left branch that crosses the railway south from Novy Urgal at the town of Tyrma. The Chegdomyn coal fields are north of Novy Urgal. The Bureya Dam is currently under construction..