Buryatia
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Buryatia, officially the Republic of Buryatia, is a republic of Russia located in the Russian Far East. Formerly part of the Siberian Federal District, it has been administered as part of the Far East
View of Lake Baikal in Buryatia
View of the valley of the Uda near the village of Khorinsk
Landscape of southern Buryatia
Unusual blue diopsidite skarn from the Dovyren Highlands, Buryatia
Buryats
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The Buryats are a Mongolic ethnic group whose historical homeland is centred on the Lake Baikal region and areas of southern Siberia and northern Mongolia. They speak the Buryat language. Historically
Buryatia
…city of Ulan-Ude. It has an area of 351,300 square kilometers (135,600 sq mi) with a population of 978,588 (2021 Census). It is home to the indigenous Buryats. The republic is located in the south-central region of Siberia along the eastern shore of Lake Baikal…
Young Buryat women wearing traditional dress, 2020
Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1925
Buryats depicted on a 1933 “Peoples of the Soviet Union” stamp
Buryat ASSR in 1989