Biodiversity
The diversity of purely North animals like brown bear and sheer South representatives like Eastern softshell spiny turtle Trionix is backed by the legend that God would mix the rest of seeds and animals when somebody told him about missing spot on Earth.
One can encounter pine-tree and wild Far-Eastern grape which came definately from the South. Its blue round berries with sour taste are cultivated in gardens to produce home wine.
Like Trionix many species are listed in the Red Book.
Facts
The last Chinese Emperor Pu Yi lived in Khabarovsk from 1945 to 1950.
Kim Jong-Ilsky?
According to most everyone but the North Koreans themselves, who of course claim he was born on the holy Baekdu Mountain, North Korea's "Benevolent" dictator, Kim Jong-il was actually born in the North Korean logging camp "Vyatskoye" ÐÑÌÑÑкое, north-east of Khabarovsk. A couple these camps actually still exist, but are strictly off limits to foreigners.
Culture
Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's 1975 film Dersu Uzala, based on a book by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, describes the friendship of a Russian explorer and his Nanai guide named Dersu Uzala. Wikipedia
Aboriginal culture within small enclaves across the krai are Nanai, Ulchi, Manchur, Orochi, Udege, Negidal, Nivkhi, Evenki and varies in each settlement.
Geography
Khabarovsk Krai occupies a long swathe of Russia's Pacific coastline, a full 2000 kilometers of it, going as far south as Sakhalin and north to Magadan Oblast. At nearly 800.000 km², it's Russias forth largest province. In the north, taiga and tundra prevail, deciduous forests in the south, and swampy forests in the central areas around Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, as a testament to it's size there are more than 50 thousand lakes to fish in, more rivers and streams than you would care to count, and several mountain ranges intersect the region, including the northern reaches of the Sikhote-Alin mountains shared with Primorsky krai. The highest point is Mount Bery, towering nearly in fact, three quarters of the area is occupied by mountains and plateaus.