The Bikin River Valley nomination prepared from 2009 to 2016 by the Natural Heritage Protection Fund with the support of the Amur Branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature and transferred to the World Heritage Centre on the 30^th of January, 2017, underwent the technical assessment of completeness.

As a result of the expert assessment, the nomination has been recognized as “complete” and after a one-and-a-half-year evaluation cycle the issue of inscribing it on the List may be considered by the Committee in summer 2018.