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3 unusual facts about Buryat


Buryat

Republic of Buryatia, also known as the "Buryat Republic", a federal subject of Russia

Mongolian nobility

After revolution broke out in Russia in November 1917, Japan moved to aid anti-Bolshevik forces in Mongolia, and a Japanese fostered pan-Mongol movement was established under the influence of the Buryat Mongols.

Natalia Zhukovskaia

Natalia L’vovna Zhukovskaia (Наталья Львовна Жуковская) is one of the foremost scholars working on Buryat history, culture, and religious life in Russia.


A Pearl in the Forest

The movie was shot on location near the Buryat village of Dadal in the Khentii province of Mongolia.

Aginsky

Aginsky District, a district of Agin-Buryat Okrug of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia

Altanbulag, Selenge

Today, the town is known as Altanbulag in both the Mongolian and Buryat languages.

Babasan Tsyrenzhapovich Tsyrenov

Babasan Tsyrenzhapovich Tsyrenov, also known as Tsirenov (bur. Цэрэнэй Цэрэнжабай Бабаасан, 1910, Burdun, Buryat State - 1987, Kyakhta, Buryatia) - a legendary hero of the Buryat-Mongol, a pilot, a veteran of World War II, from the beginning of the Finnish front from 1938 - 1945.

Buddhism in Buryatia

# Kurumkan Datsan: Republic of Buryatia, Kurumkansky (Huramhaanai in Buryat) District, village of Kurumkan

Gustaf John Ramstedt

In 1912, when Ramstedt was in Urga, Mongolia, the Mongol leaders; Da-Lama, Handan Dordzhi, and Haisan-Gung asked him to help with the negotiations with the Russian representatives which did not accept the Mongol idea to unify Urjanhai, Mongolia (including also Inner Mongolia) and Buryat Mongolia to one modern Mongol State.

Music of Buryatia

Their collaborations with La MaMa theater in New York in late 1990s led to their embrace of traditional music and shamanic roots too, and eventually to formation of the group Namgar that represents Buryat traditional music at world music festivals since 2001.

Orlovsky

Orlovsky Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the urban-type settlement of Orlovsky and two rural localities in Aginsky District of Agin-Buryat Okrug of Zabaykalsky Krai are incorporated as


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