Russia - Petroglyphs of Sikachi-Alyan

At the end of the XIXth century the Russian orientalist Pallady Kafarov noted down in his diary the first information about cliff-pictures which he saw travelling down the Amur river. The article of P.I. Vetlitsin about the ancient images on the cliffs near the Sikachi-Alyan village was published in the newspaper "Priamurskiye Vedomosti" in 1895. The in literature first special article about "Petroglyphs of the Amur river" belongs to the famous American orientalist Bertold Laufer who took part in the ethnological expedition to the Amur. It was published in english in America in 1899. V.K. Arsenyev described petroglyphs of Sikachi-Alyan during the expedition in the mountains of Sikhote Alin in 1908