Republic of the Russian Federation, located in the southern part of Eastern Siberia, between Lake Baikal and Jabłonowymi Mountains. Area of \u200b\u200b351 thousand. km2, 1.1 million inhabitants. (Data 1992), mainly of Russians (69.9%) and Buryat. The capital of Buryatia is Ulan-Ude. Mountainous area (East Sayan, mountains and valleys and mountain Przybajkala Zabajkala, Witimski Plateau in the east). Temperate climate, cool, very continental. Selenga River is the largest, much smaller, about 300 mineral springs, 70% of the area. is covered by forests (reserves Barguziński and Baikal), ore mining of tungsten, molybdenum, gold, brown coal.: in the valleys of mountain sheep, cattle, swine, fur animals. Territory Buryatia entered in the first millennium AD in the various tribal associations Uighurs, at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries connected to Russia since the eighteenth century, gold mining, since the nineteenth century - coal recovery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, from 1922 in the composition of the Soviet Union with a partial autonomy, an autonomous republic from 1958 to 1990 in the USSR.
Buryats
Mongolian nomadic people living in Buryatia (Federation Ros.) Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and northeast. (China), from the middle. Nineteenth century, half-resident, engaged in depth. cattle, horses and camels, about 420 thousand. people; originally practiced and professed szmanizm Lamaism, from the seventeenth century under the influence of the Orthodox Church; j. Buriat belonging to the Mongolian and U has its own letter.
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