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The Sikhote-Alin (, , , ) is a mountain range in Primorsky Krai and , Russia, extending about to the northeast of the Russian Pacific seaport of Vladivostok. The highest summits are Tordoki Yani at above sea level, Ko Mountain () in Khabarovsk Krai and Anik Mountain () in Primorsky Krai.
Many tributaries of the Amur River lie within the range, including the Gur. Water of Russia - Гур
The core zone can only be explored in a company of rangers.
In the 1910s and 1920s, Sikhote-Alin was extensively explored by Russian geographer and naturalist Vladimir Arsenyev (1872–1930), who described his adventures in several books, notably Dersu Uzala (1923), which in 1975 was turned into an Oscar-winning film by Akira Kurosawa. Largely due to his exploration and advocacy, the large Sikhote-Alin and Lazo wildlife refuges were set up in 1935 to preserve the region's unusual wildlife.
On February 12, 1947, one of the largest meteorite showers in recent history occurred in the mountains range. The Sikhote-Alin meteorite exploded in the atmosphere as it fell, raining many tons of metal on an elliptical region about in area. Craters were formed by the meteorites; the largest was in diameter.
In 2001, UNESCO placed "Central Sikhote-Alin" onto the World Heritage List, citing its importance for "the survival of endangered species such as the scaly-sided (Chinese) merganser, Blakiston's fish-owl and the Amur tiger". The World Heritage Site had a total area of , of which the terrestrial core zone of Sikhote-Alin Zapovednik comprised . United Nations Environment Programme In 2018, the World heritage Site was expanded by by including Bikin National Park under the name "Bikin River Valley".
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