The Ussuri shrew is a small shrew of Northeast Asia. A study in the Russian Far East found it using a broad range of habitats within forest-steppe, including forest vegetation.
Its back is dark brown with silvery hairs, and its underside is grayish white. The tail is relatively short, less than half the head-and-body length in the guide's description.
A study in the southern Russian Far East reported that it uses a broad range of forest-steppe habitats, including forest vegetation.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.