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Agin-Buryat Autonomous Area
Agin-Buryat Autonomous Area or Aga Buryat , former administrative division, S Siberian Russia, in what is now the Transbaykal Territory. Aginskoye was the capital. Formed in 1937, the area followed the Onon River. Buryats, Buddhist descendants of the Mongols, made up about 54% of the area's popu... Read more
Angara
Angara , river, c.1,150 mi (1,850 km) long, SE Siberian Russia, the outlet of Lake Baykal . After leaving the southwestern end of Lake Baykal, it flows north past Irkutsk and Bratsk, then turns west after receiving the Ilim River and flows into the Yenisei River near Strelka. Below its junction... Read more
Mongolian languages
Mongolian languages group of languages forming a subdivision of the Altaic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages (see Uralic and Altaic languages ). The Mongolian languages are spoken by about 6 million people, mainly in the Republic of Mongolia, in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Regi... Read more
Mongols
Mongols , Asian people, numbering about 6 million and distributed mainly in the Republic of Mongolia, the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China, and Kalmykia and the Buryat Republic of Russia. Traditionally the Mongols were a predominantly pastoral people, following their herds of horses, cattl... Read more
Siberia
Siberia , Rus. Sibir, vast geographical region of Russia, covering c.2,900,000 sq mi (7,511,000 sq km) and having an estimated population (1992) of 32,459,000. Historically it has had no official standing as a political or territorial division, but it was generally understood to comprise the north... Read more
Russia
Russia officially the Russian Federation, Rus. Rossiya, republic (2005 est. pop. 143,420,000), 6,591,100 sq mi (17,070,949 sq km). The country is bounded by Norway and Finland in the northwest; by Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, and Ukraine in the west; by Georgia and Azerbaijan in the southwest; a... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Buryat"

Buryat Republic
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Buryat Republic or Buryatia , constituent republic...keep reindeer herds. Major manufactures of Buryat include machinery (notably locomotives...and advanced for a century in the face of Buryat resistance until annexation occurred in...
Agin-Buryat Autonomous Area
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Agin-Buryat Autonomous Area or Aga Buryat , former administrative division, S Siberian Russia, in what is now the Transbaykal Territory. Aginskoye was the capital. Formed in 1937, the area followed the Onon River. Buryats, Buddhist descendants...
Ust-Ordyn-Buryat Autonomous Area
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Ust-Ordyn-Buryat Autonomous Area former administrative division, 9,000 sq mi (24,000 sq km), S Siberian Russia, in the Irkutsk region...
Buryats
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...of the immediate post-Soviet years, the Buryat Republic, or Buryatia (formerly the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, or ASSR...ethnic groups. One of these regions is Aga Buryat, in which Buryats make up 55 percent of the...
Ulan-Ude
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Ulan-Ude , city (1989 pop. 353,000), capital of the Buryat Republic, SE Siberian Russia, on the Selenga River near its...became the capital of the Far Eastern Republic in 1920 and of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous SSR in 1923. Formerly called Udinsk and...
Buriat-Mongolia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Buriat-Mongolia see Buryat Republic .
Siberia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...be part of Siberia, is treated separately in regional schemes. Geography Siberia's administrative units are the Altai, Buryat, Khakass, and Tuva republics, the Altai, Krasnoyarsk, and Transbaykal territories, and the Omsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk...
Angara
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Angara basin, and aluminum and pulp are processed. The Upper Angara River (Rus. Verkhnyaya Angara ), c.200 mi (320 km) long, rises NE of Lake Baykal and flows SW through the Buryat Republic into the lake; it is partly navigable.
Vitim
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Vitim , river, c.1,140 mi (1,830 km) long, rising in the Transbaykalian Mts., E Siberian Russia, in the Buryat Republic, and flowing S, NE, then N into the Lena River at Vitim. It is navigable for five months of the year from its...
Mongolian languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...languages fall into two principal divisions: Western Mongolian, to which Kalmyck belongs, and Eastern Mongolian, which includes Buryat, Khalkha, and others. Khalkha, or Mongol proper, is the most important Mongolian language. The official tongue of the...

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Mongolia
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Religions: Buddhism; Shamanism; Islam Ethnic Groups: Khalkha 77.5%; Kazakh 5.3%; Dorbed 2.8%; Bayad 2.0%; Buryat Mongol 1.9%; Draiganga Mongol 1.5% Languages: Khalkha Mongolian (official); minority languages and dialects International...

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Production by Yara Arts Group staged jointly with Buryat National
Newspaper article from: Ukrainian Weekly, The; 2/28/1999; 700+ words ; ...by Yara Arts Group staged jointly with Buryat National Theater NEW YORK - "Flight of...being staged jointly with artists from the Buryat National Theater of Siberia. An all...features the music and shaman rituals of the Buryat people who live near Lake Baikal. The...
Yara Arts Group presents "Circle" in cooperation with Buryat theater
Newspaper article from: Ukrainian Weekly, The; 3/19/2000; 700+ words ; ...presents "Circle" in cooperation with Buryat theater NEW YORK - The Yara Arts Group and artists from the Buryat National Theatre of Ulan Ude, near Lake...each summer to Siberia to work with the Buryat artists and to create international collaborative...
Apolipoprotein E and H polymorphisms in Mongolian buryat: Allele frequencies and relationship with plasma lipid levels
Magazine article from: Human Biology; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; Abstract A Buryat population consisting of seven tribal...frequencies at the APOE locus in 125 healthy Buryat aged 17 to 73 years were highest for APOE...overall APOE allele frequencies between the Buryat and the Siberian Evenki, Inuits, and...
Ammunition Depot Fire in Russia's Buryat Republic Extinguished
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 7/22/2001; 354 words ; ...broke out at an arsenal in Russia's southeastern republic of Buryat has been extinguished, Itar-tass quoted local emergencies...to the fire site, said a committee spokesman in Ulan-ude, Buryat. He said a heavy rain had brought down the main flame last...
ROSWELL RUDD & THE MONGOLIAN BURYAT BAND
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 11/2/2005; ; 452 words ; ROSWELL RUDD & THE MONGOLIAN BURYAT BAND Blue Mongol Sunnyside Conservatory-trained Mongol singer Badma Khanda meets trombonist Picturing him as the only white guy...
RUSSIA: INCUMBENT SECURES ANOTHER TERM IN UST-ORDYNSK BURYAT.(Valerii Maleev)(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 11/23/2000; 591 words ; Valerii Maleev, head of the Ust-Ordynsk Buryat Autonomous Okrug, was re-elected to that post on 19 November, ITAR-TASS reported the next day, citing the regional election...
RUSSIA: INCUMBENT SECURES ANOTHER TERM IN UST-ORDYNSKII BURYAT.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 11/22/2000; 395 words ; Valerii Maleev, head of the Ust-Ordynsk Buryat Autonomous Okrug, was re-elected to that post on 19 November, ITAR-TASS reported the next day, citing the regional election...
Out of Buryatia: New York City--based artists open the floodgates to a new appreciation of Eastern Siberia's culture and shamanism.
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...SIBERIA AND WAS MET BY three actors from the Buryat National Theatre. I had never seen them...summer to different remote villages with my Buryat friends, collecting old stories and songs. Every winter the Buryat artists have traveled to New York City...
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Newspaper article from: Ukrainian Weekly, The; 3/28/1999; 700+ words ; ...Dunayu, Soloveiko Klyche." Kytasty and Buryat music It was a rare and exotic combination...music of bandurist Julian Kytasty and Buryat throat singer Battuvshin vibrated on consecutive...the old-time kobzarska bandura, the Buryat limbe (flute), the morin khvoor (bowed...
RELIGION-RUSSIA: BUDDHIST REVIVAL ENTANGLED IN POLITICS
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 8/24/1999; 700+ words ; ...Buddhists, Nikolai Ilyin, representative of Buryat Buddhist Church in Moscow, said in an...thirds of Russia's Buddhists dwell in the Buryat republic, which lies between Lake Baikal...opposing factions. The schism within Buryat Buddhist church has deteriorated recently...