Imanka

Imanka was the name of an Udege group associated with the middle valley of the Iman River, east of the Ussuri. The Iman rises in the central Sikhote-Alin and flows through forested ridges toward the Ussuri. In this country rivers were routes through the mountains as well as sources of fish, while the surrounding forests provided hunting grounds. Eighteenth-century maps recorded the river under a form of the name Niman, preserving an older name for the waterway.