As the first market town on the border between the Russian and Chinese Empires, Kyakhta gave its name to the so-called Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin, a contact language that was used by Russian and Chinese traders to communicate.
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Kyakhta and Maimaicheng were visited by the famous English adventurer and engineer Samuel Bentham in 1782.
The pidgin owes its name to the town of Kyakhta, a Russian town on the border with the Qing Empire's Outer Mongolia, which for more than a century since its foundation in 1728 was the most important border trading point.
On March 1, 1921, the party officially formed as a political party, claimed to be the first in Mongolia, in Kyakhta and formed a provisional government.
Altanbulag began as a trading outpost across the Kyakhta River from the Russian town of Kyakhta during Qing Empire rule of Mongolia.
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.
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).
Despite those restrictions, Chinese trade firms continually penetrated the country, concentrating mainly in Ikh Khüree, Uliastai, Khovd and Kyakhta.