Sikachi-Alyan is a small Nanai village on the bank of Amur

Amur

The Amur or Heilong Jiang is the world's tenth longest river, forming the border between the Russian Far East and Northeastern China .-Course:...

 river located 75 km north of Khabarovsk

Khabarovsk

Khabarovsk is the largest city and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located some from the Chinese border. It is the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Vladivostok. The city became the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia...

. The place is famous for petroghlyphs ("masks"), the neolithic drawings carved on the surface of bazalt stones. The drawings date back to the times of 13 century B.C. The local findings contribute to the fact that people continued to inhabit this area till now. There is a museum and open-air reconstruction of the ancient village.