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Republic of Buryatia

Республика Бурятия

Republic
Official titular nation transcription(s)
 • Buryat Буряад Улас

Flag of Republic of Buryatia

Flag

Coat of arms of Republic of Buryatia

Coat of arms
Anthem: «Anthem of the Republic of Buryatia»
Location of Republic of Buryatia
Coordinates: 53°48′N 109°20′E / 53.800°N 109.333°ECoordinates: 53°48′N 109°20′E / 53.800°N 109.333°E
Country  Russia
Federal district[1] Far Eastern
Economic region[2] Far Eastern
Capital Ulan-Ude
Government
 • Type People’s Khural[3]
 • Head[3] Alexey Tsydenov[4]
Area

[5]
 • Total 351,334 km2 (135,651 sq mi)
Population

 (2021 Census)[6]
 • Total Increase 978,588
 • Rank 54th
 • Density 2.79/km2 (7.2/sq mi)
 • Urban 59.1%
 • Rural 40.9%
Time zone UTC+8 (MSK+5[7])
ISO 3166 code RU-BU
Vehicle registration 03
Official language(s) Buryat[8] • Russian[9]
Website egov-buryatia.ru

Buryatia, officially the Republic of Buryatia (Buryat: Буряад Улас, romanized: Buryaad Ulas, pronounced [bʊˈrʲɑːt ʊˈlɑs], Russian: Республика Бурятия, Mongolian: Буриад Улс, romanized: Buriad Uls), is a republic of Russia located in the Russian Far East. It is the historical native land of indigenous Buryats. Formerly part of the Siberian Federal District, it has been a part of the Far Eastern Federal District since 2018.[10] Its capital is the city of Ulan-Ude, which means Red Gateway in Buryat Mongolian. Its area is 351,300 square kilometers (135,600 sq mi) with a population of 978,588 (2021 Census).[6]

Geography[edit]

View of the valley of the Uda near the village of Khorinsk

Landscape of southern Buryatia

The republic is located in the south-central region of Siberia along the eastern shore of Lake Baikal.

  • Area: 351,300 square kilometers (135,600 sq mi)
  • Borders:
    • Internal: Irkutsk Oblast (W/NW/N), Zabaykalsky Krai (NE/E/SE/S), Tuva (W)
    • International: Mongolia (Bulgan Province, Khövsgöl Province and Selenge Province) (S/SE)
    • Water: Lake Baikal (N)
  • Highest point: Mount Munku-Sardyk (3,491 m (11,453 ft))

Rivers[edit]

Major rivers include:

  • Barguzin River
  • Irkut River
  • Kitoy River
  • Oka River
  • Selenga River
  • Uda River
  • Upper Angara River
  • Vitim River

Lakes[edit]

  • Lake Baikal — Buryatia covers 60% of the lake’s shoreline.
  • Lake Gusinoye
  • Baunt
  • Busani
  • Kapylyushi
  • Yeravna-Khorga Lake System

Mountains[edit]

Over 80% of the republic’s territory is located in the mountainous region, including the Baikal Mountains on the northern shores of Lake Baikal, the Ulan-Burgas east of the lake, and the Selenga Highlands in the south near the Mongolia–Russia border.

Natural resources[edit]

The republic’s natural resources include gold, tungsten, zinc, uranium, and more.

Climate[edit]

  • Average annual temperature: 0 °C (32 °F)[citation needed]
  • Average January temperature: −17 °C (1 °F)
  • Average July temperature: +25 °C (77 °F)
  • Average annual precipitation: 244 millimeters (9.6 in)

History[edit]

Mongolian people have lived around the area of Lake Baikal since the fifth century, with Mongolic-related Slab Grave cultural monuments found in Baikal territory.[11][12] Over time, the Mongolic peoples of the regions developed into distinct groups, one of which became the Buryats. Further divisions of the Buryats came from those living on the western shore of Lake Baikal, with better land for agriculture, and those in the east, who practiced nomadism more regularly and continued residing in moveable felt yurts. As a result of the superior farmland, the western side of Lake Baikal was settled by European peasants during the time of the Russian Empire — western Buryats were more exposed to and influenced by the culture, religions, and economy of their European neighbors, whereas the eastern Buryats maintained closer ties to other Mongolic peoples, Buddhism, and Asian civilizations.[11]

The territory of Buryatia has been governed by the Xiongnu Empire (209 BC-93 CE) and Mongolian Xianbei state (93-234), Rouran Khaganate (330-555), Mongol Empire (1206-1368), and Northern Yuan (1368-1635).[13] Medieval Mongol tribes such as the Merkit, Bayads, Barga Mongols and Tümeds inhabited in Buryatia.[13]

Imperial Russia[edit]

Cossacks and other tsarists officials began moving eastward into the western Buryat lands in 1625, where they estimated 30,000 Buryats were living in southeastern Siberia, collecting tribute from other, small Siberian tribes.[11] The Buryats resisted the incorporation into the Russian Empire’s tribute system (yasak) that demanded a yearly supply of furs; it was not until the 1680s that the last of the eastern Buryat lands were forced to participate in the yasak system. In 1666, the fort of Udinskoye was founded. This area later became known as Verkhneudinsk – in 1934, it was renamed Ulan-Ude, the present-day capital of Buryatia.[14]

From 1727 it was the border crossing for the Kyakhta trade between Russia and China.[15] Kyakhta’s founder, the Serb Sava Vladislavich, established it as a trading point between Russia and the Qing Empire.[16] The 1820 reforms of Mikhail Speransky established indirect rule over Buryatia by codifying the local clan leaders as official members of the «steppe duma» in order to incorporate them into the existing imperial government.[14]

Buddhism was recognized as an official religion of the Russian Empire by Empress Elizabeth in 1741, with the first Pandito Khambo Lama, the spiritual leader of Buryat Buddhists, elected in 1764. The first person to serve in this role was Damba Dorzha Zaiaev (1711 — 1776). At the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov served as the 12th Pandito Khambo Lama of Eastern Siberia from 1911 to 1917.[14] Itigilov stepped down in 1917 at the time of the revolution and later encouraged his students to flee to Mongolia, though he refused to flee himself.

Soviet Buryatia[edit]

National movements, including that of Buryatia, began to foment after the February Revolution in 1917. From March 1917, the leading Buryat intelligentsia organized a number of conferences in cities such as Petrograd, Chita, Irkutsk, and Verkhneudinsk (present-day Ulan-Ude) and invited representatives from Buryat administrative districts of the Irkutsk and Transbaikalia regions. The culmination of these conferences was the first All-Buryat Congress in April 23-25, 1917 in Chita, where activists advocated for a self-governing Buryat Autonomous Region, based on the models of Poland and Finland, with an elected body, the Buryat National Duma, that all Buryats, men and women, over the age of 18 and without criminal convictions, would participate in. This Duma would elect a permanent executive body, the Buryat National committee, which would take on responsibilities such as organizing the elections, assembling the Buryat Duma, and publishing works in the Buryat language.[17] Among other topics discussed at the Congress were the establishment of an Education Council to create Buryat schools, trained educators, and curricula that included the history of the Buryats and Mongols, Buryat studies, and the history of Mongolian literature.

After the November Revolution in 1917, the Buryats bid for independence was complicated by the arrival of a Japanese expeditionary force into Buryatia in 1918.[17] The Buryat national leaders saw the Japanese as potential and critical allies in assisting the independence movement, but the cooperation ultimately failed due to the conflicting agendas. The Red Army advanced in Buryatia in 1920 and continued to Outer Mongolia in 1921. Attracted to the promises of self-determination and territorial autonomy by the Bolsheviks, and having lost the cooperation of the Japanese, the Buryat leaders embraced the idea of building a Buryat nation with the new Soviet state. In 1923, the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Buryat: Буряадай Автономито Совет Социалис Республика; Russian: Бурятская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика) was created as a result of the merger of State of Buryat-Mongolia and Mongol-Buryat Oblasts and promised territorial autonomy. In 1937, Aga Buryatia and Ust-Orda Buryatia were detached from the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR and merged with Chita and Irkutsk Oblasts, respectively. In 1958, the name «Mongol» was removed from the name of the republic.

The Buryat intelligentsia were active throughout Buryatia and beyond, into Tibet and Mongolia, some with the goals of Pan-Mongolism. At the turn of the 20th century, Buryats leaders, such as Batu-dalai Ochirov and Mikhail Bogdanov, began actively writing political articles about the threat to Buryatia and Buryat existence from Russia. Despite their noted influence from 1900 to 1930, most of them were purged, killed outright or sent to concentration camps, in the 1930s.[18]

The leader of the Buryat ASSR from 1962 to 1984 was Andrei Urupkheevich Modogoev.[19] In the 1970s, Soviet authorities began two major industrial projects in Buryatia: the Gusinoozerskii power station to the south of Ulan-Ude and the construction of the Baikal–Amur Mainline railway in northern Buraytia. The construction of both projects, particularly the railway, required recruiting campaigns to bring workers from other parts of the country to Buryatia. Towns developed along the railroad, and the urban population in northern Buryatia doubled between 1979 and 1989.[11] In addition to the Russians who moved to Buryatia for work, Buryats from other parts of southern Siberia also migrated to the Buryat ASSR, particularly Ulan-Ude and other cities for jobs and educational opportunities. Prior to World War II, less than 10% of Buryats lived in urban areas, compared to almost half at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union. By 1989, one-third of the Buryat population of the Buryat ASSR was living in Ulan-Ude.

Post-Soviet Buryatia[edit]

The Buryat ASSR declared its sovereignty in 1990 and adopted the name Republic of Buryatia in 1992. However, it remained an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation. On 11 July 1995 Buryatia signed a power-sharing agreement with the federal government, granting it autonomy.[20] This agreement was abolished on 15 February 2002.[21]

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, autonomous republics such as Buryatia did not have the right to secede. However they retained considerable autonomy, with a separate legislature and president. However this autonomy has been curtailed following the 2004 law passed by Vladimir Putin that decreed regional governors and presidents were to be appointed, rather than directly elected.[14]

The Free Buryatia Foundation was founded in March 2022 in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, by opponents of the war in Buryatia and members of the global Buryats diaspora.[22]

Politics[edit]

Modern Buryat home with instruments, scrolls, and weapons typical of Buryatia.

The head of the Republic is the Head (formerly President), who the voters of the republic elect for a four-year term. From 2004 to 2012 the head of Buryatia (along with all other heads of regions in Russia) was nominated directly by the Russian President.[23][24]

Between 1991 and 2007, the President was Leonid Vasilyevich Potapov, 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 current Head of the Republic is Alexey Tsydenov, who was elected by popular vote on 10 September 2017. Prior to this he was acting Head, having been appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in February 2017.[25]

The Republic’s parliament is the People’s Khural, popularly elected every five years. The People’s Khural has 66 deputies and is currently dominated by the country’s ruling party, United Russia, with 45 seats. Vladimir Anatolyevich Pavlov has been Chairman of the People’s Khural since September 2019.

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

Administrative divisions[edit]

Demographics[edit]

Population: 972,021 (2010 Census);[26] 981,238 (2002 Census);[27] 1,041,119 (1989 Census).[28]

Settlements[edit]

Largest cities or towns in Buryatia

2010 Russian Census
Rank Administrative division Pop.
Ulan-Ude
Ulan-Ude
Severobaykalsk
Severobaykalsk 		1 Ulan-Ude City of republic significance of Ulan-Ude 404,426 Gusinoozyorsk
Gusinoozyorsk
Kyakhta
Kyakhta
2 Severobaykalsk Town of republic significance of Severobaykalsk 24,929
3 Gusinoozyorsk Selenginsky District 24,582
4 Kyakhta Kyakhtinsky District 20,041
5 Selenginsk Kabansky District 14,546
6 Zakamensk Zakamensky District 11,524
7 Onokhoy Zaigrayevsky District 10,689
8 Taksimo Muysky District 9,438
9 Bichura Bichursky District 9,145
10 Khorinsk Khorinsky District 8,138

Census date 1926 1939 1959 1970 1979 1989 2002 2010
Total population 491,236 545,766 673,326 812,251 899,398 1,038,252 981,238 972,021
Average annual population growth +1.7% +1.1% +1.5% −0.4% −0.1%
Males 248,513 467,984
Females 242,723 513,254
Females per 1000 males 977 1,097
Proportion urban 9.3% 59.6%
Territory (km2) 368,392 351,334 351,334 351,334 351,334 351,334 351,334 351,334
Population density/km2 1.3 1.6 1.9 2.3 2.6 3.0 2.8 2.8

Vital statistics[edit]

Dzharun Khashor, the largest stupa in the Republic of Buryatia.

Source: Russian Federal State Statistics Service[29][30]
Year Average population (thousands) Live births Deaths Natural change Crude birth rate (per 1000) Crude death rate (per 1000) Natural change (per 1000) Fertility rates
1970 816 14,766 6,301 8,465 18.1 7.7 10.4
1975 862 17,751 7,586 10,165 20.6 8.8 11.8
1980 921 19,859 8,734 11,125 21.6 9.5 12.1
1985 993 23,975 9,529 14,446 24.1 9.6 14.5
1990 1,050 19,185 9,602 9,583 18.3 9.1 9.1 2.18
1991 1,052 16,868 9,753 7,115 16.0 9.3 6.8 2.03
1992 1,049 13,944 10,347 3,597 13.3 9.9 3.4 1.87
1993 1,043 11,981 12,388 −407 11.5 11.9 −0.4 1.65
1994 1,039 12,327 13,650 −1,323 11.9 13.1 −1.3 1.66
1995 1,035 12,311 12,588 −277 11.9 12.2 −0.3 1.60
1996 1,031 12,159 12,441 −282 11.8 12.1 −0.3 1.57
1997 1,025 11,555 12,111 −556 11.3 11.8 −0.5 1.51
1998 1,017 11,746 11,481 265 11.6 11.3 0.3 1.53
1999 1,009 11,468 13,114 −1,646 11.4 13.0 −1.6 1.42
2000 1,001 11,654 13,155 −1,501 11.6 13.1 −1.5 1.42
2001 992 11,678 13,858 −2,180 11.8 14.0 −2.2 1.44
2002 983 12,830 14,404 −1,574 13.1 14.7 −1.6 1.52
2003 977 13,177 15,056 −1,879 13.5 15.4 −1.9 1.51
2004 973 13,399 14,868 −1,469 13.8 15.3 −1.5 1.49
2005 969 13,551 15,144 −1,593 14.0 15.6 −1.6 1.41
2006 966 14,193 13,930 263 14.7 14.4 0.3 1.41
2007 965 15,460 12,802 2,658 16.0 13.3 2.8 1.60
2008 966 16,372 12,948 3,424 16.9 13.4 3.5 1.68
2009 968 16,729 12,466 4,263 17.3 12.9 4.4 2.03
2010 972 16,535 12,386 4,149 17.0 12.7 4.3 1.99
2011 972 16,507 12,299 4,208 17.0 12.7 4.3 2.03
2012 972 17,006 12,064 4,942 17.5 12.4 5.1 2.14
2013 973 17,108 11,479 5,629 17.6 11.8 5.8 2.21
2014 976 17,093 11,182 5,911 17.5 11.5 6.0 2.26
2015 980 16,981 11,152 5,829 17.3 11.4 5.9 2.28
2016 983 16,128 11,047 5,081 16.4 11.2 5.2 2.21(e)
2017 984 14,315 10,445 3,870 14.5 10.6 3.9
2018 984 13,892 10,347 3,545 14.1 10.5 3.6
2019 12,471 10,844 1,627 12.7 11.0 1.7
2020 12,682 11,786 896 12.9 12.0 0.9

The village of Baikalskoe on the northern shores of Lake Baikal

Demographics for 2007[edit]

Source:[31]

District Births Deaths Growth Pop (2007) BR DR NGR
The Republic of 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%

Ethnic groups[edit]

According to the 2021 Census,[32] ethnic Russians make up 64% of the republic’s population, while the ethnic Buryats comprise 32.5% of the population. Other groups include Soyots (0.5%) and a host of smaller groups, each accounting for less than 0.5% of the total population.

Ethnic
group 		1926 Census1 1939 Census 1959 Census 1970 Census 1979 Census 1989 Census 2002 Census 2010 Census 2021 Census2
Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number %
Buryats 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% 286,839 30.0% 295,273 32.5%
Soyots 161 0.0% 2,739 0.3% 3,579 0.4% 4,316 0.5%
Russians 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% 630,783 66.1% 581,764 64.0%
Tatars 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% 6,813 0.7% 4,035 0.4%
Evenks 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% 2,974 0.3% 2,995 0.3%
Ukrainians 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% 5,654 0.6% 2,007 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% 18,360 1.9% 19,325 2.1%
1 In 1926, the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR included Aga-Buryatia, Ust-Orda Buryatia, and Olkhonsky District. These territories were transferred to 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.

2 68,873 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.[33]

Religion[edit]

Traditionally, Buryats adhered to belief systems that were based on the deification of nature, belief in spirits, and the possibility of their magic influence on the surroundings. They were led by shamans, who systematized tribal beliefs and cults. From the second half of the 17th century, beliefs and cults in the shamanic form were displaced by Buddhism, which became widespread in ethnic Buryatia. By the end of the 19th century, the majority of Buryats were part of the Buddhist tradition. A synthesis of Buddhism and traditional beliefs that formed a system of ecological traditions has constituted a major attribute of Buryat culture.[36] In 2003, the Local Religious Organization of Shamans, Tengeri was officially registered as a religious organization in Buryatia.[14]

As of a 2012 survey[34] 27.4% of the population adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 19.8% to Buddhism, 2% to the Slavic Native Faith, Tengrism or Buryat shamanism, 4% declares to be unaffiliated Christian (excluding Protestants), 1% are Orthodox Christian believers without belonging to churches or are members of other Orthodox churches, 1% are members of Protestant churches. In addition, 25% of the population declares to be «spiritual but not religious», 13% to be atheist, and 10.8% follows another religion or did not give an answer to the survey.[34]

Tibetan Buddhism and Orthodox Christianity are the most widespread religions in the republic. Many Slavs, who constitute around 67% of the population, are Russian Orthodox. Since the breakup of the USSR in 1991, a small number have converted to various Protestant denominations or to Rodnovery, Slavic native faith. There are also some Catholics among the Slavs. Most of the Germans (0.11% of the population) are also Orthodox, so are some other non-European groups like Armenians (0.23%), Georgians (0.03%), and Soyot (0.37%). Buryats constitute 30.04% of the total population.

Most urban Buryats are either Buddhist or Orthodox, while those in the rural areas often adhere to Yellow shamanism, a mixture of shamanism and Buddhism, or to Black shamanism.[37] There are also Tengrist movements. Siberian Tatars are around 0.7% of the population. However, due to isolation from the main body of Tatars, many of them now are either non-religious or Orthodox. Islam is followed by immigrant groups like Azeris and Uzbeks, who constitute another 0.7% of the population.

Education[edit]

The higher education institutions of the republic include Buryat State University, Buryat State Academy of Agriculture, East Siberian State Academy of Arts and Culture, and East Siberia State University of Technology and Management.

Economy[edit]

The republic’s economy is composed of agricultural and commercial products including wheat, vegetables, potatoes, timber, leather, graphite, and textiles. Fishing, hunting, fur farming, sheep and cattle farming, mining, stock raising, engineering, and food processing are also important economic generators.
The unemployment rate of Buryatia was 11% in 2020.[38]

GDP pro person nominal in 2018 was 3,650 USD[39] and PPP in 2009 was 11,148 USD.[40]

Tourism[edit]

Lake Baikal is a popular tourist destination, especially in summer.

See also[edit]

  • Music of Buryatia
  • Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug

References[edit]

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Further reading[edit]

  • Leisse, Olaf; Utta-Kristin Leisse (September 2007). «A Siberian Challenge: Dealing with Multiethnicity in the Republic of Buryatia». Nationalities Papers. 35 (4): 773–788. doi:10.1080/00905990701475178. S2CID 154820578.
  • Anthology of Buryat folklore, Pushkinskiĭ dom, 2000 (CD)

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Buryatia.

  • Official website of the Republic of Buryatia
  • (in Russian) Official website of the Republic of Buryatia
  • Official website of the Republic of Buryatia (in Buryat)
  • (in Russian) Buryatia.org, site about life in the Republic of Buryatia
  • Article on Buddhism in Buryatia and Mongolia
  • (in Russian) Informational website of Buryatia
Источник

Republic of Buryatia

Республика Бурятия

Republic
Official titular nation transcription(s)
 • Buryat Буряад Улас

Flag of Republic of Buryatia

Flag

Coat of arms of Republic of Buryatia

Coat of arms
Anthem: «Anthem of the Republic of Buryatia»
Location of Republic of Buryatia
Coordinates: 53°48′N 109°20′E / 53.800°N 109.333°ECoordinates: 53°48′N 109°20′E / 53.800°N 109.333°E
Country  Russia
Federal district[1] Far Eastern
Economic region[2] Far Eastern
Capital Ulan-Ude
Government
 • Type People’s Khural[3]
 • Head[3] Alexey Tsydenov[4]
Area

[5]
 • Total 351,334 km2 (135,651 sq mi)
Population

 (2021 Census)[6]
 • Total Increase 978,588
 • Rank 54th
 • Density 2.79/km2 (7.2/sq mi)
 • Urban 59.1%
 • Rural 40.9%
Time zone UTC+8 (MSK+5[7])
ISO 3166 code RU-BU
Vehicle registration 03
Official language(s) Buryat[8] • Russian[9]
Website egov-buryatia.ru

Buryatia, officially the Republic of Buryatia (Buryat: Буряад Улас, romanized: Buryaad Ulas, pronounced [bʊˈrʲɑːt ʊˈlɑs], Russian: Республика Бурятия, Mongolian: Буриад Улс, romanized: Buriad Uls), is a republic of Russia located in the Russian Far East. It is the historical native land of indigenous Buryats. Formerly part of the Siberian Federal District, it has been a part of the Far Eastern Federal District since 2018.[10] Its capital is the city of Ulan-Ude, which means Red Gateway in Buryat Mongolian. Its area is 351,300 square kilometers (135,600 sq mi) with a population of 978,588 (2021 Census).[6]

Geography[edit]

View of the valley of the Uda near the village of Khorinsk

Landscape of southern Buryatia

The republic is located in the south-central region of Siberia along the eastern shore of Lake Baikal.

  • Area: 351,300 square kilometers (135,600 sq mi)
  • Borders:
    • Internal: Irkutsk Oblast (W/NW/N), Zabaykalsky Krai (NE/E/SE/S), Tuva (W)
    • International: Mongolia (Bulgan Province, Khövsgöl Province and Selenge Province) (S/SE)
    • Water: Lake Baikal (N)
  • Highest point: Mount Munku-Sardyk (3,491 m (11,453 ft))

Rivers[edit]

Major rivers include:

  • Barguzin River
  • Irkut River
  • Kitoy River
  • Oka River
  • Selenga River
  • Uda River
  • Upper Angara River
  • Vitim River

Lakes[edit]

  • Lake Baikal — Buryatia covers 60% of the lake’s shoreline.
  • Lake Gusinoye
  • Baunt
  • Busani
  • Kapylyushi
  • Yeravna-Khorga Lake System

Mountains[edit]

Over 80% of the republic’s territory is located in the mountainous region, including the Baikal Mountains on the northern shores of Lake Baikal, the Ulan-Burgas east of the lake, and the Selenga Highlands in the south near the Mongolia–Russia border.

Natural resources[edit]

The republic’s natural resources include gold, tungsten, zinc, uranium, and more.

Climate[edit]

  • Average annual temperature: 0 °C (32 °F)[citation needed]
  • Average January temperature: −17 °C (1 °F)
  • Average July temperature: +25 °C (77 °F)
  • Average annual precipitation: 244 millimeters (9.6 in)

History[edit]

Mongolian people have lived around the area of Lake Baikal since the fifth century, with Mongolic-related Slab Grave cultural monuments found in Baikal territory.[11][12] Over time, the Mongolic peoples of the regions developed into distinct groups, one of which became the Buryats. Further divisions of the Buryats came from those living on the western shore of Lake Baikal, with better land for agriculture, and those in the east, who practiced nomadism more regularly and continued residing in moveable felt yurts. As a result of the superior farmland, the western side of Lake Baikal was settled by European peasants during the time of the Russian Empire — western Buryats were more exposed to and influenced by the culture, religions, and economy of their European neighbors, whereas the eastern Buryats maintained closer ties to other Mongolic peoples, Buddhism, and Asian civilizations.[11]

The territory of Buryatia has been governed by the Xiongnu Empire (209 BC-93 CE) and Mongolian Xianbei state (93-234), Rouran Khaganate (330-555), Mongol Empire (1206-1368), and Northern Yuan (1368-1635).[13] Medieval Mongol tribes such as the Merkit, Bayads, Barga Mongols and Tümeds inhabited in Buryatia.[13]

Imperial Russia[edit]

Cossacks and other tsarists officials began moving eastward into the western Buryat lands in 1625, where they estimated 30,000 Buryats were living in southeastern Siberia, collecting tribute from other, small Siberian tribes.[11] The Buryats resisted the incorporation into the Russian Empire’s tribute system (yasak) that demanded a yearly supply of furs; it was not until the 1680s that the last of the eastern Buryat lands were forced to participate in the yasak system. In 1666, the fort of Udinskoye was founded. This area later became known as Verkhneudinsk – in 1934, it was renamed Ulan-Ude, the present-day capital of Buryatia.[14]

From 1727 it was the border crossing for the Kyakhta trade between Russia and China.[15] Kyakhta’s founder, the Serb Sava Vladislavich, established it as a trading point between Russia and the Qing Empire.[16] The 1820 reforms of Mikhail Speransky established indirect rule over Buryatia by codifying the local clan leaders as official members of the «steppe duma» in order to incorporate them into the existing imperial government.[14]

Buddhism was recognized as an official religion of the Russian Empire by Empress Elizabeth in 1741, with the first Pandito Khambo Lama, the spiritual leader of Buryat Buddhists, elected in 1764. The first person to serve in this role was Damba Dorzha Zaiaev (1711 — 1776). At the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov served as the 12th Pandito Khambo Lama of Eastern Siberia from 1911 to 1917.[14] Itigilov stepped down in 1917 at the time of the revolution and later encouraged his students to flee to Mongolia, though he refused to flee himself.

Soviet Buryatia[edit]

National movements, including that of Buryatia, began to foment after the February Revolution in 1917. From March 1917, the leading Buryat intelligentsia organized a number of conferences in cities such as Petrograd, Chita, Irkutsk, and Verkhneudinsk (present-day Ulan-Ude) and invited representatives from Buryat administrative districts of the Irkutsk and Transbaikalia regions. The culmination of these conferences was the first All-Buryat Congress in April 23-25, 1917 in Chita, where activists advocated for a self-governing Buryat Autonomous Region, based on the models of Poland and Finland, with an elected body, the Buryat National Duma, that all Buryats, men and women, over the age of 18 and without criminal convictions, would participate in. This Duma would elect a permanent executive body, the Buryat National committee, which would take on responsibilities such as organizing the elections, assembling the Buryat Duma, and publishing works in the Buryat language.[17] Among other topics discussed at the Congress were the establishment of an Education Council to create Buryat schools, trained educators, and curricula that included the history of the Buryats and Mongols, Buryat studies, and the history of Mongolian literature.

After the November Revolution in 1917, the Buryats bid for independence was complicated by the arrival of a Japanese expeditionary force into Buryatia in 1918.[17] The Buryat national leaders saw the Japanese as potential and critical allies in assisting the independence movement, but the cooperation ultimately failed due to the conflicting agendas. The Red Army advanced in Buryatia in 1920 and continued to Outer Mongolia in 1921. Attracted to the promises of self-determination and territorial autonomy by the Bolsheviks, and having lost the cooperation of the Japanese, the Buryat leaders embraced the idea of building a Buryat nation with the new Soviet state. In 1923, the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Buryat: Буряадай Автономито Совет Социалис Республика; Russian: Бурятская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика) was created as a result of the merger of State of Buryat-Mongolia and Mongol-Buryat Oblasts and promised territorial autonomy. In 1937, Aga Buryatia and Ust-Orda Buryatia were detached from the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR and merged with Chita and Irkutsk Oblasts, respectively. In 1958, the name «Mongol» was removed from the name of the republic.

The Buryat intelligentsia were active throughout Buryatia and beyond, into Tibet and Mongolia, some with the goals of Pan-Mongolism. At the turn of the 20th century, Buryats leaders, such as Batu-dalai Ochirov and Mikhail Bogdanov, began actively writing political articles about the threat to Buryatia and Buryat existence from Russia. Despite their noted influence from 1900 to 1930, most of them were purged, killed outright or sent to concentration camps, in the 1930s.[18]

The leader of the Buryat ASSR from 1962 to 1984 was Andrei Urupkheevich Modogoev.[19] In the 1970s, Soviet authorities began two major industrial projects in Buryatia: the Gusinoozerskii power station to the south of Ulan-Ude and the construction of the Baikal–Amur Mainline railway in northern Buraytia. The construction of both projects, particularly the railway, required recruiting campaigns to bring workers from other parts of the country to Buryatia. Towns developed along the railroad, and the urban population in northern Buryatia doubled between 1979 and 1989.[11] In addition to the Russians who moved to Buryatia for work, Buryats from other parts of southern Siberia also migrated to the Buryat ASSR, particularly Ulan-Ude and other cities for jobs and educational opportunities. Prior to World War II, less than 10% of Buryats lived in urban areas, compared to almost half at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union. By 1989, one-third of the Buryat population of the Buryat ASSR was living in Ulan-Ude.

Post-Soviet Buryatia[edit]

The Buryat ASSR declared its sovereignty in 1990 and adopted the name Republic of Buryatia in 1992. However, it remained an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation. On 11 July 1995 Buryatia signed a power-sharing agreement with the federal government, granting it autonomy.[20] This agreement was abolished on 15 February 2002.[21]

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, autonomous republics such as Buryatia did not have the right to secede. However they retained considerable autonomy, with a separate legislature and president. However this autonomy has been curtailed following the 2004 law passed by Vladimir Putin that decreed regional governors and presidents were to be appointed, rather than directly elected.[14]

The Free Buryatia Foundation was founded in March 2022 in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, by opponents of the war in Buryatia and members of the global Buryats diaspora.[22]

Politics[edit]

Modern Buryat home with instruments, scrolls, and weapons typical of Buryatia.

The head of the Republic is the Head (formerly President), who the voters of the republic elect for a four-year term. From 2004 to 2012 the head of Buryatia (along with all other heads of regions in Russia) was nominated directly by the Russian President.[23][24]

Between 1991 and 2007, the President was Leonid Vasilyevich Potapov, 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 current Head of the Republic is Alexey Tsydenov, who was elected by popular vote on 10 September 2017. Prior to this he was acting Head, having been appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in February 2017.[25]

The Republic’s parliament is the People’s Khural, popularly elected every five years. The People’s Khural has 66 deputies and is currently dominated by the country’s ruling party, United Russia, with 45 seats. Vladimir Anatolyevich Pavlov has been Chairman of the People’s Khural since September 2019.

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

Administrative divisions[edit]

Demographics[edit]

Population: 972,021 (2010 Census);[26] 981,238 (2002 Census);[27] 1,041,119 (1989 Census).[28]

Settlements[edit]

Largest cities or towns in Buryatia

2010 Russian Census
Rank Administrative division Pop.
Ulan-Ude
Ulan-Ude
Severobaykalsk
Severobaykalsk 		1 Ulan-Ude City of republic significance of Ulan-Ude 404,426 Gusinoozyorsk
Gusinoozyorsk
Kyakhta
Kyakhta
2 Severobaykalsk Town of republic significance of Severobaykalsk 24,929
3 Gusinoozyorsk Selenginsky District 24,582
4 Kyakhta Kyakhtinsky District 20,041
5 Selenginsk Kabansky District 14,546
6 Zakamensk Zakamensky District 11,524
7 Onokhoy Zaigrayevsky District 10,689
8 Taksimo Muysky District 9,438
9 Bichura Bichursky District 9,145
10 Khorinsk Khorinsky District 8,138

Census date 1926 1939 1959 1970 1979 1989 2002 2010
Total population 491,236 545,766 673,326 812,251 899,398 1,038,252 981,238 972,021
Average annual population growth +1.7% +1.1% +1.5% −0.4% −0.1%
Males 248,513 467,984
Females 242,723 513,254
Females per 1000 males 977 1,097
Proportion urban 9.3% 59.6%
Territory (km2) 368,392 351,334 351,334 351,334 351,334 351,334 351,334 351,334
Population density/km2 1.3 1.6 1.9 2.3 2.6 3.0 2.8 2.8

Vital statistics[edit]

Dzharun Khashor, the largest stupa in the Republic of Buryatia.

Source: Russian Federal State Statistics Service[29][30]
Year Average population (thousands) Live births Deaths Natural change Crude birth rate (per 1000) Crude death rate (per 1000) Natural change (per 1000) Fertility rates
1970 816 14,766 6,301 8,465 18.1 7.7 10.4
1975 862 17,751 7,586 10,165 20.6 8.8 11.8
1980 921 19,859 8,734 11,125 21.6 9.5 12.1
1985 993 23,975 9,529 14,446 24.1 9.6 14.5
1990 1,050 19,185 9,602 9,583 18.3 9.1 9.1 2.18
1991 1,052 16,868 9,753 7,115 16.0 9.3 6.8 2.03
1992 1,049 13,944 10,347 3,597 13.3 9.9 3.4 1.87
1993 1,043 11,981 12,388 −407 11.5 11.9 −0.4 1.65
1994 1,039 12,327 13,650 −1,323 11.9 13.1 −1.3 1.66
1995 1,035 12,311 12,588 −277 11.9 12.2 −0.3 1.60
1996 1,031 12,159 12,441 −282 11.8 12.1 −0.3 1.57
1997 1,025 11,555 12,111 −556 11.3 11.8 −0.5 1.51
1998 1,017 11,746 11,481 265 11.6 11.3 0.3 1.53
1999 1,009 11,468 13,114 −1,646 11.4 13.0 −1.6 1.42
2000 1,001 11,654 13,155 −1,501 11.6 13.1 −1.5 1.42
2001 992 11,678 13,858 −2,180 11.8 14.0 −2.2 1.44
2002 983 12,830 14,404 −1,574 13.1 14.7 −1.6 1.52
2003 977 13,177 15,056 −1,879 13.5 15.4 −1.9 1.51
2004 973 13,399 14,868 −1,469 13.8 15.3 −1.5 1.49
2005 969 13,551 15,144 −1,593 14.0 15.6 −1.6 1.41
2006 966 14,193 13,930 263 14.7 14.4 0.3 1.41
2007 965 15,460 12,802 2,658 16.0 13.3 2.8 1.60
2008 966 16,372 12,948 3,424 16.9 13.4 3.5 1.68
2009 968 16,729 12,466 4,263 17.3 12.9 4.4 2.03
2010 972 16,535 12,386 4,149 17.0 12.7 4.3 1.99
2011 972 16,507 12,299 4,208 17.0 12.7 4.3 2.03
2012 972 17,006 12,064 4,942 17.5 12.4 5.1 2.14
2013 973 17,108 11,479 5,629 17.6 11.8 5.8 2.21
2014 976 17,093 11,182 5,911 17.5 11.5 6.0 2.26
2015 980 16,981 11,152 5,829 17.3 11.4 5.9 2.28
2016 983 16,128 11,047 5,081 16.4 11.2 5.2 2.21(e)
2017 984 14,315 10,445 3,870 14.5 10.6 3.9
2018 984 13,892 10,347 3,545 14.1 10.5 3.6
2019 12,471 10,844 1,627 12.7 11.0 1.7
2020 12,682 11,786 896 12.9 12.0 0.9

The village of Baikalskoe on the northern shores of Lake Baikal

Demographics for 2007[edit]

Source:[31]

District Births Deaths Growth Pop (2007) BR DR NGR
The Republic of 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%

Ethnic groups[edit]

According to the 2021 Census,[32] ethnic Russians make up 64% of the republic’s population, while the ethnic Buryats comprise 32.5% of the population. Other groups include Soyots (0.5%) and a host of smaller groups, each accounting for less than 0.5% of the total population.

Ethnic
group 		1926 Census1 1939 Census 1959 Census 1970 Census 1979 Census 1989 Census 2002 Census 2010 Census 2021 Census2
Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number %
Buryats 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% 286,839 30.0% 295,273 32.5%
Soyots 161 0.0% 2,739 0.3% 3,579 0.4% 4,316 0.5%
Russians 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% 630,783 66.1% 581,764 64.0%
Tatars 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% 6,813 0.7% 4,035 0.4%
Evenks 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% 2,974 0.3% 2,995 0.3%
Ukrainians 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% 5,654 0.6% 2,007 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% 18,360 1.9% 19,325 2.1%
1 In 1926, the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR included Aga-Buryatia, Ust-Orda Buryatia, and Olkhonsky District. These territories were transferred to 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.

2 68,873 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.[33]

Religion[edit]

Traditionally, Buryats adhered to belief systems that were based on the deification of nature, belief in spirits, and the possibility of their magic influence on the surroundings. They were led by shamans, who systematized tribal beliefs and cults. From the second half of the 17th century, beliefs and cults in the shamanic form were displaced by Buddhism, which became widespread in ethnic Buryatia. By the end of the 19th century, the majority of Buryats were part of the Buddhist tradition. A synthesis of Buddhism and traditional beliefs that formed a system of ecological traditions has constituted a major attribute of Buryat culture.[36] In 2003, the Local Religious Organization of Shamans, Tengeri was officially registered as a religious organization in Buryatia.[14]

As of a 2012 survey[34] 27.4% of the population adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 19.8% to Buddhism, 2% to the Slavic Native Faith, Tengrism or Buryat shamanism, 4% declares to be unaffiliated Christian (excluding Protestants), 1% are Orthodox Christian believers without belonging to churches or are members of other Orthodox churches, 1% are members of Protestant churches. In addition, 25% of the population declares to be «spiritual but not religious», 13% to be atheist, and 10.8% follows another religion or did not give an answer to the survey.[34]

Tibetan Buddhism and Orthodox Christianity are the most widespread religions in the republic. Many Slavs, who constitute around 67% of the population, are Russian Orthodox. Since the breakup of the USSR in 1991, a small number have converted to various Protestant denominations or to Rodnovery, Slavic native faith. There are also some Catholics among the Slavs. Most of the Germans (0.11% of the population) are also Orthodox, so are some other non-European groups like Armenians (0.23%), Georgians (0.03%), and Soyot (0.37%). Buryats constitute 30.04% of the total population.

Most urban Buryats are either Buddhist or Orthodox, while those in the rural areas often adhere to Yellow shamanism, a mixture of shamanism and Buddhism, or to Black shamanism.[37] There are also Tengrist movements. Siberian Tatars are around 0.7% of the population. However, due to isolation from the main body of Tatars, many of them now are either non-religious or Orthodox. Islam is followed by immigrant groups like Azeris and Uzbeks, who constitute another 0.7% of the population.

Education[edit]

The higher education institutions of the republic include Buryat State University, Buryat State Academy of Agriculture, East Siberian State Academy of Arts and Culture, and East Siberia State University of Technology and Management.

Economy[edit]

The republic’s economy is composed of agricultural and commercial products including wheat, vegetables, potatoes, timber, leather, graphite, and textiles. Fishing, hunting, fur farming, sheep and cattle farming, mining, stock raising, engineering, and food processing are also important economic generators.
The unemployment rate of Buryatia was 11% in 2020.[38]

GDP pro person nominal in 2018 was 3,650 USD[39] and PPP in 2009 was 11,148 USD.[40]

Tourism[edit]

Lake Baikal is a popular tourist destination, especially in summer.

See also[edit]

  • Music of Buryatia
  • Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug

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Sources[edit]

  • Верховный Совет Республики Бурятия. 22 февраля 1994 г. «Республика Бурятия. Конституция», в ред. Закона №332-IV от 7 июля 2008 г. (Supreme Council of the Republic of Buryatia. February 22, 1994 Republic of Buryatia. Constitution, as amended by the Law #332-IV of July 7, 2008. ).

Further reading[edit]

  • Leisse, Olaf; Utta-Kristin Leisse (September 2007). «A Siberian Challenge: Dealing with Multiethnicity in the Republic of Buryatia». Nationalities Papers. 35 (4): 773–788. doi:10.1080/00905990701475178. S2CID 154820578.
  • Anthology of Buryat folklore, Pushkinskiĭ dom, 2000 (CD)

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Buryatia.

  • Official website of the Republic of Buryatia
  • (in Russian) Official website of the Republic of Buryatia
  • Official website of the Republic of Buryatia (in Buryat)
  • (in Russian) Buryatia.org, site about life in the Republic of Buryatia
  • Article on Buddhism in Buryatia and Mongolia
  • (in Russian) Informational website of Buryatia
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Уважаемая Грамота, здравствуйте! Пожалуйста, не игнорируйте. У меня важный вопрос: как писать правильно и почему? Бурятия первая из российских регионов, где ввели масочный режим Бурятия первый из российских регионов, где ввели масочный режим Бурятия первой из российских регионов, где ввели масочный режим

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Верно: Бурятия — первый из российских регионов, где ввели масочный режим.

как правильно писать? улан-удэнец или уланудэнец? если что Улан-Удэ это столица Бурятии.

Ответ справочной службы русского языка

Правильно: уланудэнец (и уланудинец). Правило таково: пишутся слитно существительные – названия жителей, образованные от имен собственных, пишущихся через дефис, ср.: ньюйоркцы, ореховозуевцы, костариканцы, санктпетербуржцы, устькаменогорцы и т. д.

С какой буквы пишется слово «закон» в фразе: В соответствии с Законом Республики Бурятия от…. № ….

Ответ справочной службы русского языка

Корректно написание со строчной буквы. С прописной буквы пишется Федеральный закон как начало официального названия. 

В Республике Бурятии или в Республике Бурятия?

Ответ справочной службы русского языка

В нормативных документах принято: в Республике Бурятия.

Добрый день, уважаемая справочная служба! Есть прекрасное бурятское заимствование «саган-дайля», обозначающее растение рододендрон Адамса. Подскажите, пожалуйста, как правильно пишется слово — через дефис, раздельно, со строчных или с прописных букв? И нужно ли его склонять, например, в фразе: Крем создан на основе экстракта мяты, можжевельника и саган-дайля (саган-дайли?). Большое спасибо!

Ответ справочной службы русского языка

В словарях русского языка название этого растения не зафиксировано, в «Русском орфографическом словаре» Российской академии наук (М., 2012) закреплена только первая часть: саган, -а (растение). Чтобы ответить на Ваш вопрос, мы обратились за консультацией к проф. Иркутского государственного университета Л. И. Горбуновой, которая для нас собрала информацию об этом интересном слове.

Буряты считают, что это название бурятское, хотя есть версия, что оно могло попасть в бурятский язык из тибетского. Каковы бы ни были его корни, в русский оно вошло через бурятский.

Буквальный перевод названия – ‘белое крыло’. Первая часть означает ‘белый’. Такой же корень есть в широко распространенном и активно используемом в Бурятии слове Сагалган. Это национальный праздник Белого месяца. Третий звук в слове саган в бурятском языке звонкий фрикативный (как в форме Господи), по-русски он передается буквой г. Второй звук а – долгий, у бурят он обозначается удвоенной буквой а, но в русской орфографии эта долгота не отражается, пишется одинарная а.

Вторая часть названия означает ‘крыло’. В русском языке ее передают как дайля или дали. Однако буряты утверждают, что в их языке нет звука й и ближе к их произношению второй вариант – дали, с ударением на втором слоге.

Бурятские слова подобной структуры в русском языке кодифицируются и в дефисном написании, и в слитном. Например, в словаре С. А. Гурулева «Географические названия Иркутской области. Топонимический словарь» (Иркутск, 2015) зафиксированы Шара-Жалга (левый приток реки Большой Задой; букв. ‘желтый берег’) и Харагун (название деревни; букв. ‘черная глубина’). Но в практике письма чаще встречается дефисное написание.

В Бурятии в разговорной речи название обычно склоняют. Но в нейтральном и книжных стилях такое малоизвестное слово лучше по падежам не изменять. 

Здравствуйте!
1. Подскажите, пожалуйста, как склоняется (если склоняется) мужская и женская фамилия Гурцкая.

2. В «Письмовнике» написано: «Названия республик согласуются со словом республика, если они оканчиваются на -ия и -ея: Правительство Республики Кореи, в Республике Швейцарии…»
Это правило или рекомендация? Чаще, как мне кажется, название самой Республики не склоняется.

Ответ справочной службы русского языка

1. См. ответ № 232783. 2. Это рекомендации справочников. Однако в официальных названиях исполнительных органов государственной власти республик Российской Федерации принято названия республик не склонять: Правительство Республики Бурятия, Кабинет министров Республики Адыгея.

Как правильно: в Республике Бурятия или Бурятии? Правительство Республики Бурятия (словарь под ред. Лопатина) или Правительство Республики Бурятии?

Ответ справочной службы русского языка

Рекомендации справочников см. в ответе № 205895 . Однако в официальных названиях исполнительных органов государственной власти республик Российской Федерации принято названия республик не склонять: Правительство Республики Бурятия, Кабинет министров Республики Адыгея.

Уважаемая ГРАМОТА! К вопросу № 220 028. Мы не поняли друг друга. Имеется в виду в Республике БурятиИ, в Республике КалмыкиИ и т. д. Надо ли склонять названия республик?

Ответ справочной службы русского языка

См. ответ № 197250.

Уважаемая ГРАМОТА!
1. Склоняются ли республики в составе России (Бурятия, Калмыкия и т. д.)? У Розенталя о них нет речи, только о зарубежных – например, о Чехии.
2. Бывает ли ПО ИДЕЕ в значении вводного? В словаре Кузнецова такого примера нет, но в текстах иногда встречается выделение запятыми.

Ответ справочной службы русского языка

1. Склоняются (ср. Россия): _в России, в Бурятии, о Калмыкии_. 2. В значении ‘предположительно, кажется’ _по идее_ может быть вводным.

Как будет писаться слово республика в середине предложения. Например, «Проведение консультаций с представителями Республики(республики) Бурятия»

Ответ справочной службы русского языка

Правильно: _…с представителями Республики Бурятия_.

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Правописание слова «республика» диктуется правилами не только орфографии, но и общепринятыми в межгосударственных отношениях, и закреплёнными соответствующими конвенциями (соглашениями) на уровне ООН, то есть дипломатическими. Слово «республика» правильно пишется с маленькой буквы если речь идёт о форме государственного устройства при употреблении отдельно от других конструкций. В большинстве же «официальных» случаев «Республика» нужно писать с большой буквы – об этом далее.

Когда пишется Республика

Писать слово Республика с большой буквы (заглавной) следует:

  1. В составе официального наименования государства с республиканской формой правления. При этом все слова в названии, являющиеся основными частями речи (существительные, глаголы, прилагательные) пишутся с большой буквы: Республика Беларусь, Республика Северная Македония, Республика Островов Зелёного Мыса (она же Республика Кабо Верде).
  2. То же правило действует на организованные по-республикански субъекты государств федеративного и конфедеративного устройства, не представленные самостоятельно в международных организациях, но обладающие правами самоуправления в пределах материнской федерации (конфедерации): Республика Татарстан.

Примечание: для названий республик – субъектов федераций и конфедераций – допустимо написание республика <такая-то>, если это принято высшим законодательным органом материнского государства и утверждено законодательным собранием соответствующей республики (напр. республика Коми).

  1. Данное правило распространяется и на спорные и/или ещё не устоявшиеся в своей государственности республиканские территории, если только они не признаны ООН террористическими и/или экстремистскими организациями: Республика Крым, Республика Косово, Нагорно-Карабахская Республика. Государства, спорящие и даже воюющие из-за этих территорий, могут прикреплять к их названиям какие угодно эпитеты, хоть ругательные: «агрессивная», «непризнанная», «сепаратистская», и т.п., но Республика нужно писать с большой буквы в знак уважения к республиканской форме правления и её коренной основе – людям, народу.

О правилах написания Республика

Орфография топонимов (географических названий), сочетающихся с Республика в названии государства или его автономной части, подчиняется специфическим правилам, вытекающим из дипломатических:

  1. Топоним, составляющий с Республика одно название, пишется по возможности ближе к произношению коренным народом на родном языке, напр. республика Башкортостан (а не «Башкирия» по-советски), республика Марий Эл.
  2. Исключения составляют названия, неудобопроизносимые и/или плохо понимаемые на языке материнского государства или английском (считающимся международным языком), а также, по просьбе соответствующего государства, на основных мировых языках. Например, республика Карелия; на местных языках оно звучит как Карьялан Тазавалду, Карьялан Тасавалта, Карьялан Тазовалдкунд.
  3. Топоним, входящий в название с Республика, становится неизменяемым словом; склоняется только Республика: «с Республикой Беларусь»; «к Республике Крым», «в Республику Индия». «для Республики Островов Зелёного Мыса».
  4. Но если в топоним входят сложные слова, то склоняются их подчинённые части (чаще всего прилагательные): «о Нагорно-Карабахской Республике».

Особые случаи

Вместо Республика можно писать республика в таких случаях:

  • Если точное название республиканского государства не приведено в тексте (как правило, во множественном числе, так как по дипломатическим понятиям назвать какое-либо конкретное государство фактически безымянным образом значит нанести ему нестерпимое оскорбление): «Кавказские республики»; «Среднеазиатские республики».
  • В текстах общего характера (напр. в СМИ), если полное название приведено ранее: «Правительство Республики <топоним> ушло в отставку в полном составе, и теперь в этой республике начинается период междувластия».

Грамматика

Грамматически слово «республика» – неодушевлённое имя существительное женского рода 1-го склонения в школьной традиции (II академического). Состоит из корня «республик-» родового окончания «-а». Происходит от латинских «res» (царь) + «public» (народный), то есть, буквально «народоцарствие»; по смыслу – равнозначно древнеславянскому «народоправство» (в современной транскрипции). Постановка ударения и разделение переносами рес-пу́б-ли-ка. Падежные формы:

  • Именительный: респу́блика (ед. ч.); респу́блики (мн. ч.).
  • Родительный: респу́блики (ед. ч.); респу́блик (мн. ч.).
  • Дательный: респу́блике (ед. ч.); респу́бликам (мн. ч.).
  • Винительный респу́блику (ед. ч.); респу́блики (мн. ч.).
  • Творительный: респу́бликой или респу́бликою (ед. ч.); респу́бликами (мн. ч.).
  • Предложный: <о, на, к, при> респу́блике (ед. ч.); <о, на, к, при> респу́бликах (мн. ч.).

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Republic of Buryatia

Республика Бурятия

Republic
Official titular nation transcription(s)
 • Buryat Буряад Улас

Flag of Republic of Buryatia

Flag

Coat of arms of Republic of Buryatia

Coat of arms
Anthem: «Anthem of the Republic of Buryatia»
Location of Republic of Buryatia
Coordinates: 53°48′N 109°20′E / 53.800°N 109.333°ECoordinates: 53°48′N 109°20′E / 53.800°N 109.333°E
Country  Russia
Federal district[1] Far Eastern
Economic region[2] Far Eastern
Capital Ulan-Ude
Government
 • Type People’s Khural[3]
 • Head[3] Alexey Tsydenov[4]
Area

[5]
 • Total 351,334 km2 (135,651 sq mi)
Population

 (2021 Census)[6]
 • Total Increase 978,588
 • Rank 54th
 • Density 2.79/km2 (7.2/sq mi)
 • Urban 59.1%
 • Rural 40.9%
Time zone UTC+8 (MSK+5[7])
ISO 3166 code RU-BU
Vehicle registration 03
Official language(s) Buryat[8] • Russian[9]
Website egov-buryatia.ru

Buryatia, officially the Republic of Buryatia (Buryat: Буряад Улас, romanized: Buryaad Ulas, pronounced [bʊˈrʲɑːt ʊˈlɑs], Russian: Республика Бурятия, Mongolian: Буриад Улс, romanized: Buriad Uls), is a republic of Russia located in the Russian Far East. It is the historical native land of indigenous Buryats. Formerly part of the Siberian Federal District, it has been a part of the Far Eastern Federal District since 2018.[10] Its capital is the city of Ulan-Ude, which means Red Gateway in Buryat Mongolian. Its area is 351,300 square kilometers (135,600 sq mi) with a population of 978,588 (2021 Census).[6]

Geography[edit]

View of the valley of the Uda near the village of Khorinsk

Landscape of southern Buryatia

The republic is located in the south-central region of Siberia along the eastern shore of Lake Baikal.

  • Area: 351,300 square kilometers (135,600 sq mi)
  • Borders:
    • Internal: Irkutsk Oblast (W/NW/N), Zabaykalsky Krai (NE/E/SE/S), Tuva (W)
    • International: Mongolia (Bulgan Province, Khövsgöl Province and Selenge Province) (S/SE)
    • Water: Lake Baikal (N)
  • Highest point: Mount Munku-Sardyk (3,491 m (11,453 ft))

Rivers[edit]

Major rivers include:

  • Barguzin River
  • Irkut River
  • Kitoy River
  • Oka River
  • Selenga River
  • Uda River
  • Upper Angara River
  • Vitim River

Lakes[edit]

  • Lake Baikal — Buryatia covers 60% of the lake’s shoreline.
  • Lake Gusinoye
  • Baunt
  • Busani
  • Kapylyushi
  • Yeravna-Khorga Lake System

Mountains[edit]

Over 80% of the republic’s territory is located in the mountainous region, including the Baikal Mountains on the northern shores of Lake Baikal, the Ulan-Burgas east of the lake, and the Selenga Highlands in the south near the Mongolia–Russia border.

Natural resources[edit]

The republic’s natural resources include gold, tungsten, zinc, uranium, and more.

Climate[edit]

  • Average annual temperature: 0 °C (32 °F)[citation needed]
  • Average January temperature: −17 °C (1 °F)
  • Average July temperature: +25 °C (77 °F)
  • Average annual precipitation: 244 millimeters (9.6 in)

History[edit]

Mongolian people have lived around the area of Lake Baikal since the fifth century, with Mongolic-related Slab Grave cultural monuments found in Baikal territory.[11][12] Over time, the Mongolic peoples of the regions developed into distinct groups, one of which became the Buryats. Further divisions of the Buryats came from those living on the western shore of Lake Baikal, with better land for agriculture, and those in the east, who practiced nomadism more regularly and continued residing in moveable felt yurts. As a result of the superior farmland, the western side of Lake Baikal was settled by European peasants during the time of the Russian Empire — western Buryats were more exposed to and influenced by the culture, religions, and economy of their European neighbors, whereas the eastern Buryats maintained closer ties to other Mongolic peoples, Buddhism, and Asian civilizations.[11]

The territory of Buryatia has been governed by the Xiongnu Empire (209 BC-93 CE) and Mongolian Xianbei state (93-234), Rouran Khaganate (330-555), Mongol Empire (1206-1368), and Northern Yuan (1368-1635).[13] Medieval Mongol tribes such as the Merkit, Bayads, Barga Mongols and Tümeds inhabited in Buryatia.[13]

Imperial Russia[edit]

Cossacks and other tsarists officials began moving eastward into the western Buryat lands in 1625, where they estimated 30,000 Buryats were living in southeastern Siberia, collecting tribute from other, small Siberian tribes.[11] The Buryats resisted the incorporation into the Russian Empire’s tribute system (yasak) that demanded a yearly supply of furs; it was not until the 1680s that the last of the eastern Buryat lands were forced to participate in the yasak system. In 1666, the fort of Udinskoye was founded. This area later became known as Verkhneudinsk – in 1934, it was renamed Ulan-Ude, the present-day capital of Buryatia.[14]

From 1727 it was the border crossing for the Kyakhta trade between Russia and China.[15] Kyakhta’s founder, the Serb Sava Vladislavich, established it as a trading point between Russia and the Qing Empire.[16] The 1820 reforms of Mikhail Speransky established indirect rule over Buryatia by codifying the local clan leaders as official members of the «steppe duma» in order to incorporate them into the existing imperial government.[14]

Buddhism was recognized as an official religion of the Russian Empire by Empress Elizabeth in 1741, with the first Pandito Khambo Lama, the spiritual leader of Buryat Buddhists, elected in 1764. The first person to serve in this role was Damba Dorzha Zaiaev (1711 — 1776). At the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov served as the 12th Pandito Khambo Lama of Eastern Siberia from 1911 to 1917.[14] Itigilov stepped down in 1917 at the time of the revolution and later encouraged his students to flee to Mongolia, though he refused to flee himself.

Soviet Buryatia[edit]

National movements, including that of Buryatia, began to foment after the February Revolution in 1917. From March 1917, the leading Buryat intelligentsia organized a number of conferences in cities such as Petrograd, Chita, Irkutsk, and Verkhneudinsk (present-day Ulan-Ude) and invited representatives from Buryat administrative districts of the Irkutsk and Transbaikalia regions. The culmination of these conferences was the first All-Buryat Congress in April 23-25, 1917 in Chita, where activists advocated for a self-governing Buryat Autonomous Region, based on the models of Poland and Finland, with an elected body, the Buryat National Duma, that all Buryats, men and women, over the age of 18 and without criminal convictions, would participate in. This Duma would elect a permanent executive body, the Buryat National committee, which would take on responsibilities such as organizing the elections, assembling the Buryat Duma, and publishing works in the Buryat language.[17] Among other topics discussed at the Congress were the establishment of an Education Council to create Buryat schools, trained educators, and curricula that included the history of the Buryats and Mongols, Buryat studies, and the history of Mongolian literature.

After the November Revolution in 1917, the Buryats bid for independence was complicated by the arrival of a Japanese expeditionary force into Buryatia in 1918.[17] The Buryat national leaders saw the Japanese as potential and critical allies in assisting the independence movement, but the cooperation ultimately failed due to the conflicting agendas. The Red Army advanced in Buryatia in 1920 and continued to Outer Mongolia in 1921. Attracted to the promises of self-determination and territorial autonomy by the Bolsheviks, and having lost the cooperation of the Japanese, the Buryat leaders embraced the idea of building a Buryat nation with the new Soviet state. In 1923, the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Buryat: Буряадай Автономито Совет Социалис Республика; Russian: Бурятская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика) was created as a result of the merger of State of Buryat-Mongolia and Mongol-Buryat Oblasts and promised territorial autonomy. In 1937, Aga Buryatia and Ust-Orda Buryatia were detached from the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR and merged with Chita and Irkutsk Oblasts, respectively. In 1958, the name «Mongol» was removed from the name of the republic.

The Buryat intelligentsia were active throughout Buryatia and beyond, into Tibet and Mongolia, some with the goals of Pan-Mongolism. At the turn of the 20th century, Buryats leaders, such as Batu-dalai Ochirov and Mikhail Bogdanov, began actively writing political articles about the threat to Buryatia and Buryat existence from Russia. Despite their noted influence from 1900 to 1930, most of them were purged, killed outright or sent to concentration camps, in the 1930s.[18]

The leader of the Buryat ASSR from 1962 to 1984 was Andrei Urupkheevich Modogoev.[19] In the 1970s, Soviet authorities began two major industrial projects in Buryatia: the Gusinoozerskii power station to the south of Ulan-Ude and the construction of the Baikal–Amur Mainline railway in northern Buraytia. The construction of both projects, particularly the railway, required recruiting campaigns to bring workers from other parts of the country to Buryatia. Towns developed along the railroad, and the urban population in northern Buryatia doubled between 1979 and 1989.[11] In addition to the Russians who moved to Buryatia for work, Buryats from other parts of southern Siberia also migrated to the Buryat ASSR, particularly Ulan-Ude and other cities for jobs and educational opportunities. Prior to World War II, less than 10% of Buryats lived in urban areas, compared to almost half at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union. By 1989, one-third of the Buryat population of the Buryat ASSR was living in Ulan-Ude.

Post-Soviet Buryatia[edit]

The Buryat ASSR declared its sovereignty in 1990 and adopted the name Republic of Buryatia in 1992. However, it remained an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation. On 11 July 1995 Buryatia signed a power-sharing agreement with the federal government, granting it autonomy.[20] This agreement was abolished on 15 February 2002.[21]

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, autonomous republics such as Buryatia did not have the right to secede. However they retained considerable autonomy, with a separate legislature and president. However this autonomy has been curtailed following the 2004 law passed by Vladimir Putin that decreed regional governors and presidents were to be appointed, rather than directly elected.[14]

The Free Buryatia Foundation was founded in March 2022 in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, by opponents of the war in Buryatia and members of the global Buryats diaspora.[22]

Politics[edit]

Modern Buryat home with instruments, scrolls, and weapons typical of Buryatia.

The head of the Republic is the Head (formerly President), who the voters of the republic elect for a four-year term. From 2004 to 2012 the head of Buryatia (along with all other heads of regions in Russia) was nominated directly by the Russian President.[23][24]

Between 1991 and 2007, the President was Leonid Vasilyevich Potapov, 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 current Head of the Republic is Alexey Tsydenov, who was elected by popular vote on 10 September 2017. Prior to this he was acting Head, having been appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in February 2017.[25]

The Republic’s parliament is the People’s Khural, popularly elected every five years. The People’s Khural has 66 deputies and is currently dominated by the country’s ruling party, United Russia, with 45 seats. Vladimir Anatolyevich Pavlov has been Chairman of the People’s Khural since September 2019.

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

Administrative divisions[edit]

Demographics[edit]

Population: 972,021 (2010 Census);[26] 981,238 (2002 Census);[27] 1,041,119 (1989 Census).[28]

Settlements[edit]

Largest cities or towns in Buryatia

2010 Russian Census
Rank Administrative division Pop.
Ulan-Ude
Ulan-Ude
Severobaykalsk
Severobaykalsk 		1 Ulan-Ude City of republic significance of Ulan-Ude 404,426 Gusinoozyorsk
Gusinoozyorsk
Kyakhta
Kyakhta
2 Severobaykalsk Town of republic significance of Severobaykalsk 24,929
3 Gusinoozyorsk Selenginsky District 24,582
4 Kyakhta Kyakhtinsky District 20,041
5 Selenginsk Kabansky District 14,546
6 Zakamensk Zakamensky District 11,524
7 Onokhoy Zaigrayevsky District 10,689
8 Taksimo Muysky District 9,438
9 Bichura Bichursky District 9,145
10 Khorinsk Khorinsky District 8,138

Census date 1926 1939 1959 1970 1979 1989 2002 2010
Total population 491,236 545,766 673,326 812,251 899,398 1,038,252 981,238 972,021
Average annual population growth +1.7% +1.1% +1.5% −0.4% −0.1%
Males 248,513 467,984
Females 242,723 513,254
Females per 1000 males 977 1,097
Proportion urban 9.3% 59.6%
Territory (km2) 368,392 351,334 351,334 351,334 351,334 351,334 351,334 351,334
Population density/km2 1.3 1.6 1.9 2.3 2.6 3.0 2.8 2.8

Vital statistics[edit]

Dzharun Khashor, the largest stupa in the Republic of Buryatia.

Source: Russian Federal State Statistics Service[29][30]
Year Average population (thousands) Live births Deaths Natural change Crude birth rate (per 1000) Crude death rate (per 1000) Natural change (per 1000) Fertility rates
1970 816 14,766 6,301 8,465 18.1 7.7 10.4
1975 862 17,751 7,586 10,165 20.6 8.8 11.8
1980 921 19,859 8,734 11,125 21.6 9.5 12.1
1985 993 23,975 9,529 14,446 24.1 9.6 14.5
1990 1,050 19,185 9,602 9,583 18.3 9.1 9.1 2.18
1991 1,052 16,868 9,753 7,115 16.0 9.3 6.8 2.03
1992 1,049 13,944 10,347 3,597 13.3 9.9 3.4 1.87
1993 1,043 11,981 12,388 −407 11.5 11.9 −0.4 1.65
1994 1,039 12,327 13,650 −1,323 11.9 13.1 −1.3 1.66
1995 1,035 12,311 12,588 −277 11.9 12.2 −0.3 1.60
1996 1,031 12,159 12,441 −282 11.8 12.1 −0.3 1.57
1997 1,025 11,555 12,111 −556 11.3 11.8 −0.5 1.51
1998 1,017 11,746 11,481 265 11.6 11.3 0.3 1.53
1999 1,009 11,468 13,114 −1,646 11.4 13.0 −1.6 1.42
2000 1,001 11,654 13,155 −1,501 11.6 13.1 −1.5 1.42
2001 992 11,678 13,858 −2,180 11.8 14.0 −2.2 1.44
2002 983 12,830 14,404 −1,574 13.1 14.7 −1.6 1.52
2003 977 13,177 15,056 −1,879 13.5 15.4 −1.9 1.51
2004 973 13,399 14,868 −1,469 13.8 15.3 −1.5 1.49
2005 969 13,551 15,144 −1,593 14.0 15.6 −1.6 1.41
2006 966 14,193 13,930 263 14.7 14.4 0.3 1.41
2007 965 15,460 12,802 2,658 16.0 13.3 2.8 1.60
2008 966 16,372 12,948 3,424 16.9 13.4 3.5 1.68
2009 968 16,729 12,466 4,263 17.3 12.9 4.4 2.03
2010 972 16,535 12,386 4,149 17.0 12.7 4.3 1.99
2011 972 16,507 12,299 4,208 17.0 12.7 4.3 2.03
2012 972 17,006 12,064 4,942 17.5 12.4 5.1 2.14
2013 973 17,108 11,479 5,629 17.6 11.8 5.8 2.21
2014 976 17,093 11,182 5,911 17.5 11.5 6.0 2.26
2015 980 16,981 11,152 5,829 17.3 11.4 5.9 2.28
2016 983 16,128 11,047 5,081 16.4 11.2 5.2 2.21(e)
2017 984 14,315 10,445 3,870 14.5 10.6 3.9
2018 984 13,892 10,347 3,545 14.1 10.5 3.6
2019 12,471 10,844 1,627 12.7 11.0 1.7
2020 12,682 11,786 896 12.9 12.0 0.9

The village of Baikalskoe on the northern shores of Lake Baikal

Demographics for 2007[edit]

Source:[31]

District Births Deaths Growth Pop (2007) BR DR NGR
The Republic of 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%

Ethnic groups[edit]

According to the 2021 Census,[32] ethnic Russians make up 64% of the republic’s population, while the ethnic Buryats comprise 32.5% of the population. Other groups include Soyots (0.5%) and a host of smaller groups, each accounting for less than 0.5% of the total population.

Ethnic
group 		1926 Census1 1939 Census 1959 Census 1970 Census 1979 Census 1989 Census 2002 Census 2010 Census 2021 Census2
Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number %
Buryats 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% 286,839 30.0% 295,273 32.5%
Soyots 161 0.0% 2,739 0.3% 3,579 0.4% 4,316 0.5%
Russians 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% 630,783 66.1% 581,764 64.0%
Tatars 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% 6,813 0.7% 4,035 0.4%
Evenks 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% 2,974 0.3% 2,995 0.3%
Ukrainians 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% 5,654 0.6% 2,007 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% 18,360 1.9% 19,325 2.1%
1 In 1926, the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR included Aga-Buryatia, Ust-Orda Buryatia, and Olkhonsky District. These territories were transferred to 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.

2 68,873 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.[33]

Religion[edit]

Traditionally, Buryats adhered to belief systems that were based on the deification of nature, belief in spirits, and the possibility of their magic influence on the surroundings. They were led by shamans, who systematized tribal beliefs and cults. From the second half of the 17th century, beliefs and cults in the shamanic form were displaced by Buddhism, which became widespread in ethnic Buryatia. By the end of the 19th century, the majority of Buryats were part of the Buddhist tradition. A synthesis of Buddhism and traditional beliefs that formed a system of ecological traditions has constituted a major attribute of Buryat culture.[36] In 2003, the Local Religious Organization of Shamans, Tengeri was officially registered as a religious organization in Buryatia.[14]

As of a 2012 survey[34] 27.4% of the population adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 19.8% to Buddhism, 2% to the Slavic Native Faith, Tengrism or Buryat shamanism, 4% declares to be unaffiliated Christian (excluding Protestants), 1% are Orthodox Christian believers without belonging to churches or are members of other Orthodox churches, 1% are members of Protestant churches. In addition, 25% of the population declares to be «spiritual but not religious», 13% to be atheist, and 10.8% follows another religion or did not give an answer to the survey.[34]

Tibetan Buddhism and Orthodox Christianity are the most widespread religions in the republic. Many Slavs, who constitute around 67% of the population, are Russian Orthodox. Since the breakup of the USSR in 1991, a small number have converted to various Protestant denominations or to Rodnovery, Slavic native faith. There are also some Catholics among the Slavs. Most of the Germans (0.11% of the population) are also Orthodox, so are some other non-European groups like Armenians (0.23%), Georgians (0.03%), and Soyot (0.37%). Buryats constitute 30.04% of the total population.

Most urban Buryats are either Buddhist or Orthodox, while those in the rural areas often adhere to Yellow shamanism, a mixture of shamanism and Buddhism, or to Black shamanism.[37] There are also Tengrist movements. Siberian Tatars are around 0.7% of the population. However, due to isolation from the main body of Tatars, many of them now are either non-religious or Orthodox. Islam is followed by immigrant groups like Azeris and Uzbeks, who constitute another 0.7% of the population.

Education[edit]

The higher education institutions of the republic include Buryat State University, Buryat State Academy of Agriculture, East Siberian State Academy of Arts and Culture, and East Siberia State University of Technology and Management.

Economy[edit]

The republic’s economy is composed of agricultural and commercial products including wheat, vegetables, potatoes, timber, leather, graphite, and textiles. Fishing, hunting, fur farming, sheep and cattle farming, mining, stock raising, engineering, and food processing are also important economic generators.
The unemployment rate of Buryatia was 11% in 2020.[38]

GDP pro person nominal in 2018 was 3,650 USD[39] and PPP in 2009 was 11,148 USD.[40]

Tourism[edit]

Lake Baikal is a popular tourist destination, especially in summer.

See also[edit]

  • Music of Buryatia
  • Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug

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  • Верховный Совет Республики Бурятия. 22 февраля 1994 г. «Республика Бурятия. Конституция», в ред. Закона №332-IV от 7 июля 2008 г. (Supreme Council of the Republic of Buryatia. February 22, 1994 Republic of Buryatia. Constitution, as amended by the Law #332-IV of July 7, 2008. ).

Further reading[edit]

  • Leisse, Olaf; Utta-Kristin Leisse (September 2007). «A Siberian Challenge: Dealing with Multiethnicity in the Republic of Buryatia». Nationalities Papers. 35 (4): 773–788. doi:10.1080/00905990701475178. S2CID 154820578.
  • Anthology of Buryat folklore, Pushkinskiĭ dom, 2000 (CD)

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Buryatia.

  • Official website of the Republic of Buryatia
  • (in Russian) Official website of the Republic of Buryatia
  • Official website of the Republic of Buryatia (in Buryat)
  • (in Russian) Buryatia.org, site about life in the Republic of Buryatia
  • Article on Buddhism in Buryatia and Mongolia
  • (in Russian) Informational website of Buryatia
Источник

Republic of Buryatia

Республика Бурятия

Republic
Official titular nation transcription(s)
 • Buryat Буряад Улас

Flag of Republic of Buryatia

Flag

Coat of arms of Republic of Buryatia

Coat of arms
Anthem: «Anthem of the Republic of Buryatia»
Location of Republic of Buryatia
Coordinates: 53°48′N 109°20′E / 53.800°N 109.333°ECoordinates: 53°48′N 109°20′E / 53.800°N 109.333°E
Country  Russia
Federal district[1] Far Eastern
Economic region[2] Far Eastern
Capital Ulan-Ude
Government
 • Type People’s Khural[3]
 • Head[3] Alexey Tsydenov[4]
Area

[5]
 • Total 351,334 km2 (135,651 sq mi)
Population

 (2021 Census)[6]
 • Total Increase 978,588
 • Rank 54th
 • Density 2.79/km2 (7.2/sq mi)
 • Urban 59.1%
 • Rural 40.9%
Time zone UTC+8 (MSK+5[7])
ISO 3166 code RU-BU
Vehicle registration 03
Official language(s) Buryat[8] • Russian[9]
Website egov-buryatia.ru

Buryatia, officially the Republic of Buryatia (Buryat: Буряад Улас, romanized: Buryaad Ulas, pronounced [bʊˈrʲɑːt ʊˈlɑs], Russian: Республика Бурятия, Mongolian: Буриад Улс, romanized: Buriad Uls), is a republic of Russia located in the Russian Far East. It is the historical native land of indigenous Buryats. Formerly part of the Siberian Federal District, it has been a part of the Far Eastern Federal District since 2018.[10] Its capital is the city of Ulan-Ude, which means Red Gateway in Buryat Mongolian. Its area is 351,300 square kilometers (135,600 sq mi) with a population of 978,588 (2021 Census).[6]

Geography[edit]

View of the valley of the Uda near the village of Khorinsk

Landscape of southern Buryatia

The republic is located in the south-central region of Siberia along the eastern shore of Lake Baikal.

  • Area: 351,300 square kilometers (135,600 sq mi)
  • Borders:
    • Internal: Irkutsk Oblast (W/NW/N), Zabaykalsky Krai (NE/E/SE/S), Tuva (W)
    • International: Mongolia (Bulgan Province, Khövsgöl Province and Selenge Province) (S/SE)
    • Water: Lake Baikal (N)
  • Highest point: Mount Munku-Sardyk (3,491 m (11,453 ft))

Rivers[edit]

Major rivers include:

  • Barguzin River
  • Irkut River
  • Kitoy River
  • Oka River
  • Selenga River
  • Uda River
  • Upper Angara River
  • Vitim River

Lakes[edit]

  • Lake Baikal — Buryatia covers 60% of the lake’s shoreline.
  • Lake Gusinoye
  • Baunt
  • Busani
  • Kapylyushi
  • Yeravna-Khorga Lake System

Mountains[edit]

Over 80% of the republic’s territory is located in the mountainous region, including the Baikal Mountains on the northern shores of Lake Baikal, the Ulan-Burgas east of the lake, and the Selenga Highlands in the south near the Mongolia–Russia border.

Natural resources[edit]

The republic’s natural resources include gold, tungsten, zinc, uranium, and more.

Climate[edit]

  • Average annual temperature: 0 °C (32 °F)[citation needed]
  • Average January temperature: −17 °C (1 °F)
  • Average July temperature: +25 °C (77 °F)
  • Average annual precipitation: 244 millimeters (9.6 in)

History[edit]

Mongolian people have lived around the area of Lake Baikal since the fifth century, with Mongolic-related Slab Grave cultural monuments found in Baikal territory.[11][12] Over time, the Mongolic peoples of the regions developed into distinct groups, one of which became the Buryats. Further divisions of the Buryats came from those living on the western shore of Lake Baikal, with better land for agriculture, and those in the east, who practiced nomadism more regularly and continued residing in moveable felt yurts. As a result of the superior farmland, the western side of Lake Baikal was settled by European peasants during the time of the Russian Empire — western Buryats were more exposed to and influenced by the culture, religions, and economy of their European neighbors, whereas the eastern Buryats maintained closer ties to other Mongolic peoples, Buddhism, and Asian civilizations.[11]

The territory of Buryatia has been governed by the Xiongnu Empire (209 BC-93 CE) and Mongolian Xianbei state (93-234), Rouran Khaganate (330-555), Mongol Empire (1206-1368), and Northern Yuan (1368-1635).[13] Medieval Mongol tribes such as the Merkit, Bayads, Barga Mongols and Tümeds inhabited in Buryatia.[13]

Imperial Russia[edit]

Cossacks and other tsarists officials began moving eastward into the western Buryat lands in 1625, where they estimated 30,000 Buryats were living in southeastern Siberia, collecting tribute from other, small Siberian tribes.[11] The Buryats resisted the incorporation into the Russian Empire’s tribute system (yasak) that demanded a yearly supply of furs; it was not until the 1680s that the last of the eastern Buryat lands were forced to participate in the yasak system. In 1666, the fort of Udinskoye was founded. This area later became known as Verkhneudinsk – in 1934, it was renamed Ulan-Ude, the present-day capital of Buryatia.[14]

From 1727 it was the border crossing for the Kyakhta trade between Russia and China.[15] Kyakhta’s founder, the Serb Sava Vladislavich, established it as a trading point between Russia and the Qing Empire.[16] The 1820 reforms of Mikhail Speransky established indirect rule over Buryatia by codifying the local clan leaders as official members of the «steppe duma» in order to incorporate them into the existing imperial government.[14]

Buddhism was recognized as an official religion of the Russian Empire by Empress Elizabeth in 1741, with the first Pandito Khambo Lama, the spiritual leader of Buryat Buddhists, elected in 1764. The first person to serve in this role was Damba Dorzha Zaiaev (1711 — 1776). At the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov served as the 12th Pandito Khambo Lama of Eastern Siberia from 1911 to 1917.[14] Itigilov stepped down in 1917 at the time of the revolution and later encouraged his students to flee to Mongolia, though he refused to flee himself.

Soviet Buryatia[edit]

National movements, including that of Buryatia, began to foment after the February Revolution in 1917. From March 1917, the leading Buryat intelligentsia organized a number of conferences in cities such as Petrograd, Chita, Irkutsk, and Verkhneudinsk (present-day Ulan-Ude) and invited representatives from Buryat administrative districts of the Irkutsk and Transbaikalia regions. The culmination of these conferences was the first All-Buryat Congress in April 23-25, 1917 in Chita, where activists advocated for a self-governing Buryat Autonomous Region, based on the models of Poland and Finland, with an elected body, the Buryat National Duma, that all Buryats, men and women, over the age of 18 and without criminal convictions, would participate in. This Duma would elect a permanent executive body, the Buryat National committee, which would take on responsibilities such as organizing the elections, assembling the Buryat Duma, and publishing works in the Buryat language.[17] Among other topics discussed at the Congress were the establishment of an Education Council to create Buryat schools, trained educators, and curricula that included the history of the Buryats and Mongols, Buryat studies, and the history of Mongolian literature.

After the November Revolution in 1917, the Buryats bid for independence was complicated by the arrival of a Japanese expeditionary force into Buryatia in 1918.[17] The Buryat national leaders saw the Japanese as potential and critical allies in assisting the independence movement, but the cooperation ultimately failed due to the conflicting agendas. The Red Army advanced in Buryatia in 1920 and continued to Outer Mongolia in 1921. Attracted to the promises of self-determination and territorial autonomy by the Bolsheviks, and having lost the cooperation of the Japanese, the Buryat leaders embraced the idea of building a Buryat nation with the new Soviet state. In 1923, the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Buryat: Буряадай Автономито Совет Социалис Республика; Russian: Бурятская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика) was created as a result of the merger of State of Buryat-Mongolia and Mongol-Buryat Oblasts and promised territorial autonomy. In 1937, Aga Buryatia and Ust-Orda Buryatia were detached from the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR and merged with Chita and Irkutsk Oblasts, respectively. In 1958, the name «Mongol» was removed from the name of the republic.

The Buryat intelligentsia were active throughout Buryatia and beyond, into Tibet and Mongolia, some with the goals of Pan-Mongolism. At the turn of the 20th century, Buryats leaders, such as Batu-dalai Ochirov and Mikhail Bogdanov, began actively writing political articles about the threat to Buryatia and Buryat existence from Russia. Despite their noted influence from 1900 to 1930, most of them were purged, killed outright or sent to concentration camps, in the 1930s.[18]

The leader of the Buryat ASSR from 1962 to 1984 was Andrei Urupkheevich Modogoev.[19] In the 1970s, Soviet authorities began two major industrial projects in Buryatia: the Gusinoozerskii power station to the south of Ulan-Ude and the construction of the Baikal–Amur Mainline railway in northern Buraytia. The construction of both projects, particularly the railway, required recruiting campaigns to bring workers from other parts of the country to Buryatia. Towns developed along the railroad, and the urban population in northern Buryatia doubled between 1979 and 1989.[11] In addition to the Russians who moved to Buryatia for work, Buryats from other parts of southern Siberia also migrated to the Buryat ASSR, particularly Ulan-Ude and other cities for jobs and educational opportunities. Prior to World War II, less than 10% of Buryats lived in urban areas, compared to almost half at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union. By 1989, one-third of the Buryat population of the Buryat ASSR was living in Ulan-Ude.

Post-Soviet Buryatia[edit]

The Buryat ASSR declared its sovereignty in 1990 and adopted the name Republic of Buryatia in 1992. However, it remained an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation. On 11 July 1995 Buryatia signed a power-sharing agreement with the federal government, granting it autonomy.[20] This agreement was abolished on 15 February 2002.[21]

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, autonomous republics such as Buryatia did not have the right to secede. However they retained considerable autonomy, with a separate legislature and president. However this autonomy has been curtailed following the 2004 law passed by Vladimir Putin that decreed regional governors and presidents were to be appointed, rather than directly elected.[14]

The Free Buryatia Foundation was founded in March 2022 in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, by opponents of the war in Buryatia and members of the global Buryats diaspora.[22]

Politics[edit]

Modern Buryat home with instruments, scrolls, and weapons typical of Buryatia.

The head of the Republic is the Head (formerly President), who the voters of the republic elect for a four-year term. From 2004 to 2012 the head of Buryatia (along with all other heads of regions in Russia) was nominated directly by the Russian President.[23][24]

Between 1991 and 2007, the President was Leonid Vasilyevich Potapov, 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 current Head of the Republic is Alexey Tsydenov, who was elected by popular vote on 10 September 2017. Prior to this he was acting Head, having been appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in February 2017.[25]

The Republic’s parliament is the People’s Khural, popularly elected every five years. The People’s Khural has 66 deputies and is currently dominated by the country’s ruling party, United Russia, with 45 seats. Vladimir Anatolyevich Pavlov has been Chairman of the People’s Khural since September 2019.

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

Administrative divisions[edit]

Demographics[edit]

Population: 972,021 (2010 Census);[26] 981,238 (2002 Census);[27] 1,041,119 (1989 Census).[28]

Settlements[edit]

Largest cities or towns in Buryatia

2010 Russian Census
Rank Administrative division Pop.
Ulan-Ude
Ulan-Ude
Severobaykalsk
Severobaykalsk 		1 Ulan-Ude City of republic significance of Ulan-Ude 404,426 Gusinoozyorsk
Gusinoozyorsk
Kyakhta
Kyakhta
2 Severobaykalsk Town of republic significance of Severobaykalsk 24,929
3 Gusinoozyorsk Selenginsky District 24,582
4 Kyakhta Kyakhtinsky District 20,041
5 Selenginsk Kabansky District 14,546
6 Zakamensk Zakamensky District 11,524
7 Onokhoy Zaigrayevsky District 10,689
8 Taksimo Muysky District 9,438
9 Bichura Bichursky District 9,145
10 Khorinsk Khorinsky District 8,138

Census date 1926 1939 1959 1970 1979 1989 2002 2010
Total population 491,236 545,766 673,326 812,251 899,398 1,038,252 981,238 972,021
Average annual population growth +1.7% +1.1% +1.5% −0.4% −0.1%
Males 248,513 467,984
Females 242,723 513,254
Females per 1000 males 977 1,097
Proportion urban 9.3% 59.6%
Territory (km2) 368,392 351,334 351,334 351,334 351,334 351,334 351,334 351,334
Population density/km2 1.3 1.6 1.9 2.3 2.6 3.0 2.8 2.8

Vital statistics[edit]

Dzharun Khashor, the largest stupa in the Republic of Buryatia.

Source: Russian Federal State Statistics Service[29][30]
Year Average population (thousands) Live births Deaths Natural change Crude birth rate (per 1000) Crude death rate (per 1000) Natural change (per 1000) Fertility rates
1970 816 14,766 6,301 8,465 18.1 7.7 10.4
1975 862 17,751 7,586 10,165 20.6 8.8 11.8
1980 921 19,859 8,734 11,125 21.6 9.5 12.1
1985 993 23,975 9,529 14,446 24.1 9.6 14.5
1990 1,050 19,185 9,602 9,583 18.3 9.1 9.1 2.18
1991 1,052 16,868 9,753 7,115 16.0 9.3 6.8 2.03
1992 1,049 13,944 10,347 3,597 13.3 9.9 3.4 1.87
1993 1,043 11,981 12,388 −407 11.5 11.9 −0.4 1.65
1994 1,039 12,327 13,650 −1,323 11.9 13.1 −1.3 1.66
1995 1,035 12,311 12,588 −277 11.9 12.2 −0.3 1.60
1996 1,031 12,159 12,441 −282 11.8 12.1 −0.3 1.57
1997 1,025 11,555 12,111 −556 11.3 11.8 −0.5 1.51
1998 1,017 11,746 11,481 265 11.6 11.3 0.3 1.53
1999 1,009 11,468 13,114 −1,646 11.4 13.0 −1.6 1.42
2000 1,001 11,654 13,155 −1,501 11.6 13.1 −1.5 1.42
2001 992 11,678 13,858 −2,180 11.8 14.0 −2.2 1.44
2002 983 12,830 14,404 −1,574 13.1 14.7 −1.6 1.52
2003 977 13,177 15,056 −1,879 13.5 15.4 −1.9 1.51
2004 973 13,399 14,868 −1,469 13.8 15.3 −1.5 1.49
2005 969 13,551 15,144 −1,593 14.0 15.6 −1.6 1.41
2006 966 14,193 13,930 263 14.7 14.4 0.3 1.41
2007 965 15,460 12,802 2,658 16.0 13.3 2.8 1.60
2008 966 16,372 12,948 3,424 16.9 13.4 3.5 1.68
2009 968 16,729 12,466 4,263 17.3 12.9 4.4 2.03
2010 972 16,535 12,386 4,149 17.0 12.7 4.3 1.99
2011 972 16,507 12,299 4,208 17.0 12.7 4.3 2.03
2012 972 17,006 12,064 4,942 17.5 12.4 5.1 2.14
2013 973 17,108 11,479 5,629 17.6 11.8 5.8 2.21
2014 976 17,093 11,182 5,911 17.5 11.5 6.0 2.26
2015 980 16,981 11,152 5,829 17.3 11.4 5.9 2.28
2016 983 16,128 11,047 5,081 16.4 11.2 5.2 2.21(e)
2017 984 14,315 10,445 3,870 14.5 10.6 3.9
2018 984 13,892 10,347 3,545 14.1 10.5 3.6
2019 12,471 10,844 1,627 12.7 11.0 1.7
2020 12,682 11,786 896 12.9 12.0 0.9

The village of Baikalskoe on the northern shores of Lake Baikal

Demographics for 2007[edit]

Source:[31]

District Births Deaths Growth Pop (2007) BR DR NGR
The Republic of 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%

Ethnic groups[edit]

According to the 2021 Census,[32] ethnic Russians make up 64% of the republic’s population, while the ethnic Buryats comprise 32.5% of the population. Other groups include Soyots (0.5%) and a host of smaller groups, each accounting for less than 0.5% of the total population.

Ethnic
group 		1926 Census1 1939 Census 1959 Census 1970 Census 1979 Census 1989 Census 2002 Census 2010 Census 2021 Census2
Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number %
Buryats 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% 286,839 30.0% 295,273 32.5%
Soyots 161 0.0% 2,739 0.3% 3,579 0.4% 4,316 0.5%
Russians 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% 630,783 66.1% 581,764 64.0%
Tatars 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% 6,813 0.7% 4,035 0.4%
Evenks 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% 2,974 0.3% 2,995 0.3%
Ukrainians 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% 5,654 0.6% 2,007 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% 18,360 1.9% 19,325 2.1%
1 In 1926, the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR included Aga-Buryatia, Ust-Orda Buryatia, and Olkhonsky District. These territories were transferred to 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.

2 68,873 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.[33]

Religion[edit]

Traditionally, Buryats adhered to belief systems that were based on the deification of nature, belief in spirits, and the possibility of their magic influence on the surroundings. They were led by shamans, who systematized tribal beliefs and cults. From the second half of the 17th century, beliefs and cults in the shamanic form were displaced by Buddhism, which became widespread in ethnic Buryatia. By the end of the 19th century, the majority of Buryats were part of the Buddhist tradition. A synthesis of Buddhism and traditional beliefs that formed a system of ecological traditions has constituted a major attribute of Buryat culture.[36] In 2003, the Local Religious Organization of Shamans, Tengeri was officially registered as a religious organization in Buryatia.[14]

As of a 2012 survey[34] 27.4% of the population adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 19.8% to Buddhism, 2% to the Slavic Native Faith, Tengrism or Buryat shamanism, 4% declares to be unaffiliated Christian (excluding Protestants), 1% are Orthodox Christian believers without belonging to churches or are members of other Orthodox churches, 1% are members of Protestant churches. In addition, 25% of the population declares to be «spiritual but not religious», 13% to be atheist, and 10.8% follows another religion or did not give an answer to the survey.[34]

Tibetan Buddhism and Orthodox Christianity are the most widespread religions in the republic. Many Slavs, who constitute around 67% of the population, are Russian Orthodox. Since the breakup of the USSR in 1991, a small number have converted to various Protestant denominations or to Rodnovery, Slavic native faith. There are also some Catholics among the Slavs. Most of the Germans (0.11% of the population) are also Orthodox, so are some other non-European groups like Armenians (0.23%), Georgians (0.03%), and Soyot (0.37%). Buryats constitute 30.04% of the total population.

Most urban Buryats are either Buddhist or Orthodox, while those in the rural areas often adhere to Yellow shamanism, a mixture of shamanism and Buddhism, or to Black shamanism.[37] There are also Tengrist movements. Siberian Tatars are around 0.7% of the population. However, due to isolation from the main body of Tatars, many of them now are either non-religious or Orthodox. Islam is followed by immigrant groups like Azeris and Uzbeks, who constitute another 0.7% of the population.

Education[edit]

The higher education institutions of the republic include Buryat State University, Buryat State Academy of Agriculture, East Siberian State Academy of Arts and Culture, and East Siberia State University of Technology and Management.

Economy[edit]

The republic’s economy is composed of agricultural and commercial products including wheat, vegetables, potatoes, timber, leather, graphite, and textiles. Fishing, hunting, fur farming, sheep and cattle farming, mining, stock raising, engineering, and food processing are also important economic generators.
The unemployment rate of Buryatia was 11% in 2020.[38]

GDP pro person nominal in 2018 was 3,650 USD[39] and PPP in 2009 was 11,148 USD.[40]

Tourism[edit]

Lake Baikal is a popular tourist destination, especially in summer.

See also[edit]

  • Music of Buryatia
  • Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug

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Sources[edit]

  • Верховный Совет Республики Бурятия. 22 февраля 1994 г. «Республика Бурятия. Конституция», в ред. Закона №332-IV от 7 июля 2008 г. (Supreme Council of the Republic of Buryatia. February 22, 1994 Republic of Buryatia. Constitution, as amended by the Law #332-IV of July 7, 2008. ).

Further reading[edit]

  • Leisse, Olaf; Utta-Kristin Leisse (September 2007). «A Siberian Challenge: Dealing with Multiethnicity in the Republic of Buryatia». Nationalities Papers. 35 (4): 773–788. doi:10.1080/00905990701475178. S2CID 154820578.
  • Anthology of Buryat folklore, Pushkinskiĭ dom, 2000 (CD)

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Buryatia.

  • Official website of the Republic of Buryatia
  • (in Russian) Official website of the Republic of Buryatia
  • Official website of the Republic of Buryatia (in Buryat)
  • (in Russian) Buryatia.org, site about life in the Republic of Buryatia
  • Article on Buddhism in Buryatia and Mongolia
  • (in Russian) Informational website of Buryatia
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  • 1 Русский
    • 1.1 Тип и синтаксические свойства сочетания
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      • 1.3.1 Значение
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      • 1.3.4 Гиперонимы
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