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Buryatia

Buryat Republic (; ) is a federal subject

Federal subjects of Russia

Russia is a federation which consists of 83 subjects. These subjects are of equal federal rights in the sense that they have equal representation?two delegates each?in the Federation Council of Russia ....
of Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
(a republic

Republic

A republic is a state or country that is not led by a hereditary monarch but in which the people have an impact on its government. The word originates from the Latin term res publica....
). Its size is slightly over 350,000 km² with a population of almost one million. Its capital is Ulan-Ude

Ulan-Ude

Ulan-Ude is the capital types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Buryatia, Russia, is located about 100 km south-east of Lake Baikal on the Uda River, Buryatia at its confluence with the Selenga River....
. The direct romanization

Romanization of Russian

Romanization of the Russian alphabet is the process of transliteration the Russian language from the Cyrillic alphabet into the Latin alphabet. Such transliteration is necessary for writing Russian names and other words in the alphabet of one's own language....
of the republic's name is Respublika Buryatiya in Russian and Buryaad Respublika in Buryat.

atia is located in the Irkutsk Time Zone

Irkutsk Time

Irkutsk Time Zone is the time zone 8 hours ahead of UTC and 5 hours ahead of Moscow Time and is the same as Australian Western Standard Time, Time in Indonesia, Malaysian Standard Time, Philippine Standard Time, China Standard Time, Mongolia Standard Time, Hong Kong Time, and Macau Standard Time....
(IRKT/IRKST).

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Buryat Republic (; ) is a federal subject

Federal subjects of Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
(a republic

Republic

Ulan-Ude

Romanization of Russian

Geography

Buryatia is located in the South-Central region of Siberia

Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
along the eastern shore of Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal is in southern Siberia in Russia, located between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryatia to the southeast, near the city of Irkutsk....
.

Area: 351,300 km²
Borders:

internal: Irkutsk Oblast
Irkutsk Oblast

Irkutsk Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia , located in south-eastern Siberia in the basins of Angara River, Lena River, and Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers....
(W/NW/N), Chita Oblast
Chita Oblast

Chita Oblast , Chitinskaya oblast) was a federal subjects of Russia of Russia in south-east Siberia, Russia. Its administrative center was the city of Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai....
(NE/E/SE/S), Tuva
Tuva

Tyva Republic , or Tuva , is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia ....
(W)
international: Mongolia
Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
(S/SE)
water: Lake Baikal
Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal is in southern Siberia in Russia, located between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryatia to the southeast, near the city of Irkutsk....
(N)

Highest point: Mount Munku-Sardyk (3,491 m)

Time zone

Buryatia is located in the Irkutsk Time Zone

Irkutsk Time

Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time is a time standard based on International Atomic Time with leap seconds added at irregular intervals to compensate for the Earth's slowing rotation....
offset is +0800 (IRKT)/+0900 (IRKST).

Rivers

Major rivers include:

Barguzin River
Irkut River
Irkut River

Irkut is a river in the Buryatia and Irkutsk Oblast of Russia; Angara River's left tributary. The length of the river is . The area of its drainage basin is ....
Kitoy River
Kitoy River

Kitoy River is a river in Buryatia and Irkutsk Oblast in Russia, Angara River's left tributary. The length of the river is 316 km. The area of its Drainage basin is 9,190 km?....
Oka River
Oka River (Siberia)

The Oka is a river in Siberia, left tributary of the Angara River. It originates in the Sayan Mountains in western Buryatia and flows through Irkutsk Oblast. It flows for 630 km , into the Bratsk reservoir....
Selenga River
Uda River
Uda River, Buryatia

Uda is a river in the Buryatia, Russia. It is a right tributary of the Selenga River, which it meets near the city Ulan-Ude. Its length is ....
Upper Angara River
Vitim River
Vitim River

Vitim River is a major tributary of the Lena River. With its Source east of Lake Baikal, the Vitim flows 1,978 km north through the Transbaykalian Mountains and the town of Bodaybo....

Lakes

Lake Baikal
Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal is in southern Siberia in Russia, located between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryatia to the southeast, near the city of Irkutsk....
- Buryatia covers sixty percent of the lake's shore line.
Lake Gusinoye
Lake Gusinoye

Goose Lake is the name of a body of fresh water in the Russian Republics of Russia Buryatia in the southeast portion of Siberia. It is located about 120 kilometers from Ulan Ude, the capital of Buryatia and is close to the border with Mongolia....

Mountains

Over 80% of the republic's territory is located in the mountainous region, including the Baikal Mountains

Baikal Mountains

The Baikal Mountains or Baikal Range rise steeply over the northwestern shore of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, Russia. The Central Siberian Plateau is bounded on the south by the Eastern Sayan Mountains and the Baikal Mountains....
on the northern shores of Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal is in southern Siberia in Russia, located between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryatia to the southeast, near the city of Irkutsk....
.

Natural resources

Buryatia's natural resources include gold

Gold

Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and atomic number 79. It is a highly sought-after precious metal, having been used as money, as a store of value, in jewelry, in sculpture, and for ornamentation since the beginning of recorded history....
, tungsten

Tungsten

Tungsten , also known as wolfram , is a chemical element that has the symbol W and atomic number 74.A steel-gray metal, tungsten is found in several ores, including wolframite and scheelite....
, zinc

Zinc

Zinc is a metallic chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. It is a first-row transition metal of the group 12 element of the periodic table....
, uranium

Uranium

Uranium is a silvery-gray metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table that has the chemical symbol U and atomic number 92....
and more.

Climate

Average annual temperature:
Average January temperature:
Average July temperature:
Average annual precipitation
Precipitation (meteorology)

File:MeanMonthlyP.gifIn meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of Atmosphere water vapor that is deposited on the earth's surface....
:

Administrative divisions

Demographics

Population: 981,238 (2002)

Urban: 584,970 (59.6%)
Rural: 396,268 (40.4%)
Male: 467,984 (47.7%)
Female: 513,254 (52.3%)

Females per 1000 males: 1,097
Average age: 31.6 years

Urban: 31.2 years
Rural: 32.2 years
Male: 29.4 years
Female: 33.9 years

Number of households: 322,289 (with 958,402 people)

Urban: 197,651 (with 566,755 people)
Rural: 124,638 (with 391,647 people)

Vital statistics (2005)

Births: 13,551 (birth rate 14.0)
Deaths: 15,144 (death rate 15.7)

Ethnic groups

According to the 2002 Census

Russian Census (2002)

Russian Census of 2002 was the first census of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Goskomstat ....
, ethnic Russians

Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavs ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.The English language term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity ; in Russian language, the demonym Russian is translated as Rossiyanin ....
make up two thirds of the republic's population, while the ethnic Buryats

Buryats

The Buryats or Buriyads, numbering approximately 436,000, are the largest ethnic minority group in Siberia and are mainly concentrated in their homeland, the Buryatia, a Federal subjects of Russia of Russia....
are only 27.8%. Other groups include Ukrainians

Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavs ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly?citizens of Ukraine . Some 200 years ago and times prior to that, Ukrainians were usually referred to and known as Rusyny ....
(1.0%), Tatars

Tatars

Tatars , sometimes spelled Tartars, refers to a Turkic people ethnic group mainly inhabiting Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, and Poland....
(0.8%), and a host of smaller groups, each accounting for less than 0.5% of the total population.

	1926 census ¹	1939 census	1959 census	1970 census	1979 census	1989 census	2002 census
Buryats Buryats The Buryats or Buriyads, numbering approximately 436,000, are the largest ethnic minority group in Siberia and are mainly concentrated in their homeland, the Buryatia, a Federal subjects of Russia of Russia....	214,957 (43.8%)	116,382 (21.3%)	135,798 (20.2%)	178,660 (22.0%)	206,860 (23.0%)	249,525 (24.0%)	272,910 (27.8%)
Soyots Soyots The Soyot people live in Russia. According to the 2002 census, there were 2769 Soyots in Russia. Their extinct language was if Turkic peoples type and basically similar to the Tuvans, but they live in the Oka Region of Buryatia....	161 (0.0%)	116,382 (21.3%)	135,798 (20.2%)	178,660 (22.0%)	206,860 (23.0%)	249,525 (24.0%)	2,739 (0.3%)
Russians Russians The Russian people are an East Slavs ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.The English language term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity ; in Russian language, the demonym Russian is translated as Rossiyanin ....	258,796 (52.7%)	393,057 (72.0%)	502,568 (74.6%)	596,960 (73.5%)	647,785 (72.0%)	726,165 (69.9%)	665,512 (67.8%)
Ukrainians Ukrainians Ukrainians are an East Slavs ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly?citizens of Ukraine . Some 200 years ago and times prior to that, Ukrainians were usually referred to and known as Rusyny ....	1,982 (0.4%)	13,392 (2.5%)	10,183 (1.5%)	10,769 (1.3%)	15,290 (1.7%)	22,868 (2.2%)	9,585 (1.0%)
Tatars Tatars Tatars , sometimes spelled Tartars, refers to a Turkic people ethnic group mainly inhabiting Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, and Poland....	3,092 (0.6%)	3,840 (0.7%)	8,058 (1.2%)	9,991 (1.2%)	10,290 (1.1%)	10,496 (1.0%)	8,189 (0.8%)
Evenks Evenks The Evenks or Evenki are a Tungusic people of Northern Asia. In Russia, the Evenks are recognized as one of the Indigenous peoples of the Russian North, with a population of 35,527 ....	2,808 (0.6%)	1,818 (0.3%)	1,335 (0.2%)	1,685 (0.2%)	1,543 (0.2%)	1,679 (0.2%)	2,334 (0.2%)
Others	9,440 (1.9%)	17,277 (3.2%)	15,384 (2.3%)	14,186 (1.7%)	17,630 (2.0%)	27,519 (2.7%)	19,969 (2.0%)

In 1926, the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR included Aga Buryatia, Ust-Orda Buryatia and the Olkhon district. These territories were transferred to the Chita and Irkutsk Oblasts in 1937. Consequently, the results of the 1926 census cannot be compared to the results of the censuses of 1939 and later.

Vital Statistics for 2007: Source

Total fertility rates by federal subjects of Russia

TFR by Federal SubjectsThis is a list of values of total fertility rates by federal subjects of Russia of RussiaThe historical variation in TFR in RF is given in the table below....

Birth Rate: 15.86 per 1000
Death Rate: 13.36 per 1000
Net Immigration: -2.7 per 1000
NGR: +0.25% per Year
PGR: -0.02% per Year
Birth rate was 16.8 for the first half of 2008.

Demographics for 2007

Raion Raion A raion is a type of administrative unit of some post-Soviet states. The term, which is of French origin, describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is almost always translated as "district"....	Births	Deaths	Growth	Pp (2007)	BR	DR	NGR
Buryatia	12,337	9,833	2,504	960,000	17.13	13.66	0.35%
Ulan-Ude	4,260	3,517	743	373,300	15.22	12.56	0.27%
Bichursky District	339	318	21	26,900	16.80	15.76	0.10%
Dzhidinsky District	512	309	203	30,800	22.16	13.38	0.88%
Yeravninsky District	244	191	53	18,600	17.49	13.69	0.38%
Zaigrayevsky District	714	630	84	48,700	19.55	17.25	0.23%
Zakamensky District	492	322	170	30,400	21.58	14.12	0.75%
Ivolginsky District	498	320	178	31,000	21.42	13.76	0.77%
Kabansky District	702	779	-77	64,400	14.53	16.13	-0.16%
Kizhinginsky District	303	192	111	18,700	21.60	13.69	0.79%
Kyakhtinsky District	629	393	236	40,500	20.71	12.94	0.78%
Mukhorshibirsky District	338	319	19	28,000	16.10	15.19	0.09%
Pribaykalsky District	423	357	66	28,900	19.52	16.47	0.30%
Selenginsky District	628	522	106	47,500	17.63	14.65	0.30%
Tarbagataysky District	205	216	-11	16,900	16.17	17.04	-0.09%
Tunkinsky District	304	249	55	23,000	17.62	14.43	0.32%
Khorinsky District	314	222	92	19,200	21.81	15.42	0.64%
Barguzinsky District	367	272	95	25,600	19.11	14.17	0.49%
Bauntovsky Evenkiysky District	126	92	34	10,500	16.00	11.68	0.43%
Kurumkansky District	232	129	103	15,600	19.83	11.03	0.88%
Muysky District	179	112	67	15,600	15.30	9.57	0.57%
Okinsky District	73	37	36	5,100	19.08	9.67	0.94%
Severo-Baykalsky District	196	161	35	15,200	17.19	14.12	0.31%
Severobaykalsk	259	174	85	25,600	13.49	9.06	0.44%

History

The area of the modern day Buryatia was first colonized in the 1600s by Russians in search of wealth, furs and gold. In 1923, the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was created through the union of the Buryat-Mongol and Mongol-Buryat Oblast

Oblast

Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic peoples countries and in some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"....
s. In 1937, Aga Buryatia and Ust-Orda Buryatia were detached from the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR and merged with the Chita

Chita

Chita may refer to one of the following:...
and Irkutsk

Irkutsk

Irkutsk is one of the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Siberia and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, situated by rail from Moscow....
oblasts, respectively. Besides, the Olkhon

Olkhon

Olkhon is the fourth-largest List of islands in lakes. It is by far the largest island in Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia, with an area of 730 km? ....
district was transferred from the Buryat-Mongolina ASSR to the Irkutsk

Irkutsk

Irkutsk is one of the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Siberia and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, situated by rail from Moscow....
oblast.

Politics

The head of government in Buryatia is the President, who is appointed by the President of Russia for a four-year term. Between 1991-2007, the President was Leonid Vasilyevich Potapov

Leonid Potapov

Leonid Vasil'ievitch Potapov was the President of the Buryatia in Russia from August 1991 to July 2007. He was reelected three times ; in 2002 he received 68% of the vote....
, who was elected on July 1, 1994, re-elected in 1998 (with 63.25% of votes), and then re-elected again on June 23, 2002 (with over 67% of votes). Prior to the elections, Potapov was the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic—the highest post at that time.

The Republic's parliament

Parliament

A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom....
is the People's Khural, popularly elected every four years. The People's Khural has 65 deputies.

The Republic's Constitution was adopted on February 22, 1994.

Economy

The republic's economy is composed of important agricultural and commercial products including wheat, vegetables, potatoes, timber, leather, graphite and textiles. Fishing, hunting, fur farming

Fur farming

Fur farming is the practice of breeding or raising certain types of animals for their fur.The animal most commonly farmed for its fur is the mink....
, sheep and cattle farming, mining

Mining

Mining is the extraction of value minerals or other geology materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, Sodium chloride and potash....
, stock raising, engineering, and food processing are also important economic generators.

Education

The higher education institutions of the republic include Buryatia State University, Buryat State Academy of Agriculture, East Siberian State Academy of Arts and Culture, and East Siberian State Technological Institute.

Religion

Tibetan Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism is the body of Buddhism religious doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet and certain regions of the Himalayas, including northern Nepal, Bhutan, and India ....
, Shamanism

Shamanism

Shamanism is a range of traditional beliefs and practices concerned with communication with the spirit world. A practitioner of shamanism is known as a shaman, , noun ....
, and Orthodox Christianity

Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest single Christian communion in the world with an estimated 225 million members worldwide. It is considered by its adherents to be the Four Marks of the Church established by Jesus Christ and his Apostles nearly 2000 years ago....
are the most widespread religions in Buryatia.

Buryatia

Geography

Time zone

Rivers

Lakes

Mountains

Natural resources

Climate

Administrative divisions

Demographics

Demographics for 2007

History

Politics

Economy

Education

Religion

Tourism

See also

Sources

Further reading

External links

Buryatia

Geography

Time zone

Rivers

Lakes

Mountains

Natural resources

Climate

Administrative divisions

Demographics

Demographics for 2007DisplayLink("http://burstat.gks.ru/digital/region1/DocLib/nas_godgor.htm", "(*)")

History

Politics

Economy

Education

Religion

Tourism

See also

Sources

Further reading

External links

Demographics for 2007