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8 unusual facts about Buryatia


Akokan Gulag

Akokan Gulag was located in the Severo-Baykalsky District of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia.

Amarkhuu Borkhuu

When he was a child his parents moved from Mongolia to Ulan-Ude, Buryatia in Russia.

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.

Buryat

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

Chikoy

Chikoy (rural locality), a former urban-type settlement in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia; since 2004—a rural locality (a selo)

Eastern Military District

The federal subjects that are part of the district include Buryatia, the Sakha Republic, the Zabaykalsky Krai, the Kamchatka Krai, the Primorsky Krai, the Khabarovsk Krai, the Amur Oblast, the Magadan Oblast, the Sakhalin Oblast, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia

The People's Khural of Buryatia is the unicameral legislature of that republic.

Turka

Turka, Russia, a former urban-type settlement in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia; since 2006—a rural locality (a selo)


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Barguzin

Ust-Barguzin, an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia

Buddhism in Buryatia

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

Byambyn Rinchen

Byambyn Rinchen was born in 1905 in Bol'shoy Lug place of Troitskosavsky uyezd (district), today the surroundings of Kyakhta, in the border zone of Russia and Mongolia (Kyakhta in Buryatia and Altanbulag sum in Selenge Province).

Chikoy

Chikoy River, a river in Zabaykalsky Krai and the Republic of Buryatia in Russia

Dzhida

Dzhida River, a river in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, on which the town of Zakamensk stands

Great Baikal Trail

At the same time, two organizations – the Federation of Sports Tourism and Mountaineering of the Republic of Buryatia and Earth Island Institute's Baikal Watch in San Francisco, USA – were awarded a joint grant from the Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation for the an exchange program to share experience in trail construction.


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