The petroglyphs of the Kia river (Devil's pleso) are located on the sheer cliffs on the right bank of the Kya river (Ussury's tributary) in 8 kilometers from Pereyaslavka (district named after Lazo). These are the drawings of the masks, animals, snakes, birds, boats, anthropomorphic graffity. Together, 13 drawings are found, produced by the method of deep channeling striking. The images belonged to the epochs of neolith and Early Iron Age and are dated the third millennium B.C. - first millennium A.C.

The petroglyphs by the Kya river is the second site on the Ussury after the Sheremetyevo settlement, where had been discovered the rock drawings. They are few in number, but A site where had been found the petroglyphs is on the right bank of the Ussury's tributary - the Kya river, by so-called (Devil's pleso).

Pleso is located in 8-9 kilometers from the bridge across the Kya river on Khabarovsk-Vladivostok highway, by Pereyaslavka settlement. The petroglyphs are located on the rock outcrop by the second meander (bend) of the Kya river, on its right bank.

Worth to note, that just like in Sycachi-Alyan, in immediate proximity from the cliff with drawings, hereabove by a small lodge there had been found in the undamaged clay stratum the stoneware of the mesolithic type.

A shear rock in some places hang above the lower bank of the Kia river. At its basement there's a Scree with the grass growth. The bank is swampy, abounding in mounds, grown with a dense and high grass (carex), where lay fallen off the basalt boulders. The trees are growing above the rock. Closer to the edges the rock's height is reducing down to a meter. The rock is of basalt. The basalt is dark-gray, rough, with the deep vertical and inclined cracks. Mineral solutions flow out of the cracks and the white colour sediment on the rock surface is left. This sediment had covered some of the drawings.

An extract from the A.P.Okladnikov's book
"Lower Amur Petroglyphs".