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  Buryat Republic. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The republic is mountainous and heavily forested and has rivers and lakes that are rich in fish and that provide hydroelectric power.
The Buryats, former nomads who have largely adopted a sedentary existence, are descended from the Huns, Mongols, Evenki, and Turks.
The Buryat Republic was a signatory to the Mar. 31, 1992, treaty that created the Russian Federation (see Russia).
www.bartleby.com /65/bu/BuryatRe.html   (318 words)

  
  Buryat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Buryats, numbering approximately 436,000, are the largest ethnic minority group in Siberia and are mainly concentrated in their homeland, the Buryat Republic.
Buryats are of Mongolian descent and share many customs with their Mongolian cousins, including nomadic herding and erecting yurts for shelter.
From the middle of the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th, the Buryat population increased from 27,700 to 300,000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buryat   (562 words)

  
 Buryat History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Buryats from Buryatia as well as from northern and eastern Outer Mongolia played an important role in the new government; several of the cabinet posts were occupied by Buryats.
Buryat intellectuals participated in the revival of Mongolian culture and were further emboldened to follow Mongolia's example in their own country.
An apolitical All-Buryat Cultural Association was established with the purpose of cooperation between all Buryat ethnic areas and the revival of the Mongolian language.
www.buryatmongol.com /history.html   (3755 words)

  
 Buryat Republic - Kommersant Moscow
Buryats are the indigenous population of the republic.
The Chairman of the National Khural of the Buryat Republic and his deputy preside over sessions of the National Khural; manage the work routine of the National Khural; supervise the preparation and consideration of questions to be discussed by the National Khural; and, within the limits of their authority, issue decrees.
Court proceedings in the Buryat Republic are conducted in Buryat or Russian.
www.kommersant.com /p-91/r_435/Buryat_Republic   (2752 words)

  
 Buryatia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Buryat Republic (Buryat: Буряад Республика; Russian: Респу́блика Буря́тия) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic).
The Republic's Constitution was adopted on February 22, 1994.
The higher education institutions of the republic include Buryatia State University, Buryat State Academy of Agriculture, East Siberian State Academy of Arts and Culture, and East Siberian State Technological Institute.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buryat_Republic   (469 words)

  
 RUSNET.NL :: Encyclopedia :: B :: Buryatia
The Republic of Buryatia, population 1,049,000, is an autonomous republic in the South-Central region of Siberia along the eastern shore of Lake Baikal.
The Buryat Republic's capital, Ulan Ude, rests at the junction of the Uda and Selenga Rivers.
The Buryats, numbering approximately 350,000, are the largest ethnic minority group in Siberia, and are mainly concentrated in their homeland.
www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/b/print/buryatia.shtml   (645 words)

  
 Buddhism in Russia
The Kalmyk Autonomous Republic on the Caspian steppes of the lower Volga, the republics of buryat and Tuva, and the Chita and Irkutsk regions in Siberia are the traditional areas of Buddhism in the Soviet Union.
Buryat scholars believe that forgotten remedies of natural origin may be very effective in supplementing modern drugs, especially in treating diseases of the digestive organs.
Buryat scientists have developed preparations that restore the functions of the liver in cases of hepatitis and are also effective in the treatment of chronic gastritis, ulcers, and enteritis.
www.buddhismtoday.com /english/world/country/028-russia.htm   (2422 words)

  
 Russia Minority Peoples and Their Territories
The Buryats of southern Siberia, for example, were divided among the Buryat Autonomous Republic and Chita and Irkutsk oblasts, which were created to the east and west of the republic, respectively; that population division remains in the post-Soviet era.
It was redesignated as the Republic of Adygea in 1992.
The Republic of Mari El, formerly the Mari ASSR, is located in the middle Volga Basin on the north shore of the river, directly east of the city of Nizhniy Novgorod (formerly Gor'kiy).
www.country-studies.com /russia/minority-peoples-and-their-territories.html   (6057 words)

  
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Buryats have achieved a high level of education that helps equip many for work in regional industries such as aircraft manufacture." [1] The Buryat Republic, the southern part of the territory of East Siberia, is situated in the region between northern Mongolia and Lake Baikal.
Buryats live not only in the boundaries of the Republic of Buryatia but also in the ethnical autonomous districts (ok- rug) of Chita and Irkutsk administrative provinces (oblast') within the Russian Federation.
Buryats have a common traditional belief system - shamanism, which was overlaid by Tibetan form of Buddhism among the eastern and southern Buryats (in Transbaikalia) during the 18th century, and partly by Russian Orthodoxy among the western Buryats (in Cisbaikalia) during the 19th century.
userpage.fu-berlin.de /~corff/im/Landeskunde/buryatia.unx   (1650 words)

  
 The Republic of Buryatia
The Buryats numbering approximately 350,000 are the largest minority group in Russia.
Buryats are very much connected to their homeland, which they call "totnto".
In Arbizhil it is possible to have lunch with local Buryats, attend a folklore performance or meet with a Buryat shaman.
www.traveleastrussia.com /buryatia.html   (1756 words)

  
 BSU's history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Buryat State University was founded in 1995 on the basis of Buryat State Teachers Training Institute and Ulan-Ude Branch of Novosibirsk State University.
Today Buryat State University is one of the biggest educational, scientific and cultural centers in Eastern Siberia.
Not all the students are citizens of Buryat Republic.
www.bsu.ru /general/history.html   (583 words)

  
 The Republic of Buryatia
The Buryat Republic, population 1,049,000, is an autonomous republic in the South-Central region of Siberia along the eastern shore of Lake Baikal.
The Buryat Republic’s capitol, Ulan Ude, rests at the junction of the Uda and Selenga Rivers.
The Buryats, numbering approximately 350,000, are the largest ethnic minority group in Siberia, and are mainly concentrated in their homeland, the Republic of Buryataia.
baikal.eastsib.ru /buryatrepublic   (1869 words)

  
 The Republic of Buryatia
The Buryat Republic, population 1,049,000, is an autonomous republic in the South-Central region of Siberia along the eastern shore of Lake Baikal.
The Buryat Republic’s capitol, Ulan Ude, rests at the junction of the Uda and Selenga Rivers.
The Buryats, numbering approximately 350,000, are the largest ethnic minority group in Siberia, and are mainly concentrated in their homeland, the Republic of Buryataia.
www.baikal.eastsib.ru /buryatrepublic/index.html   (1869 words)

  
 Buryat Republic: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Buryat Republic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
The 351,300 km² (218,300 sq.m.) area was first colonized in the 1600s by Russians in search of wealth, furs and gold.
The republic's economy is composed of important agricultural and commercial products including wheat, vegetables, potatoes, timber, leather and textiles.
The Buryat Republic's capital, Ulan-Ude, rests at the junction of the Uda and Selenga[?] Rivers.
www.encyclopedian.com /bu/Buryatia.html   (139 words)

  
 UNPO
Buryat intellectuals played a critical role in uniting the population against the Russian authorities, who attempted to suppress the rise in Mongolian culture through forced Russianization.
The judicial system of the Buryat Republic is established in accordance with the Constitutions of the Russian Federation and the Buryat Republic and federal constitutional law.The legal status of judges established in federal law of the Russian Federation applies fully to judges in the Buryat Republic.
Other organizations active in the region include the Buryat State Academy of Agriculture, which strives to manage agro-ecosystems and the development of rural lands using modern technologies, and the East Siberian State Academy of Arts and Culture, which is active in the preservation of Buryat culture.
www.unpo.org /member_profile.php?id=12   (1654 words)

  
 Culture
The fact is, that the Republic of Buryatia is believed to the one of the cultural centres of the East Siberia.
There are four theatres in Ulan-Ude, the capital of the Republic: the Buryat State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, the Khotza Namsaraev Byryat State Academic Theatre of Drama, the Nickolay Bestuzhev Russian Theatre of Drama and the Republican puppet-show "Uliger".
The Buryat vocal school is of great reputation and it is well substantiated with the participation of the representatives of the Theatre of opera and ballet in many international competitions.
www.buryatia.ru /buryatia/culture/index_e.html   (955 words)

  
 Welcome to Adobe GoLive 5
The Supreme Court of the Buryat Republic has suspended the proceedings of the case about an illegal change of boundaries of the Tunkinskiy Ethnic Park until 1 January  2004.
Not experienced in legal subtleties, the public considered the efforts of the authorities to be illegal and submitted an application to the procurator’s office of the Buryat Republic with a request to investigate the “linguistic” pretentious novelties of the functionaries.
It is quite natural, therefore, that the Procurator’s office of the Republic deemed it expedient to approach the Supreme Court of the Buryat Republic with an application for recognition of the Enactment as being in conflict with the federal legislation, unacted upon, and as not being implemented.
www.npolar.no /ansipra/english/Items/Buryatia_cut_window.html   (837 words)

  
 baikaltravel.ru \ Tourism and Resting in Buryatia
The republic of Buryatia being a subject of the Russian Federation is included in the Siberian Federative region (okrug).
The Buryat scientific center of the Siberian department of Academy of Sciences with its research branches, four high institutions, more than 20 technical and vocational schools were founded in the republic.
It borders on the Irkutsk region(oblast) in the North-west, on the Chita region in the East, on the Republic of Tyva in the North and on Mongolia in the South.
www.baikaltravel.ru:8083 /bur   (1061 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Qing Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
In the aftermath of the 1911 revolution, a new Republic of China was established and the last emperor abdicated.
The Wuchang Uprising succeeded on October 10th, 1911, this was followed by a proclamation of a separate central government, the Republic of China, in Nanjing with Sun Yat-sen as its provisional head.
This position was rejected by the new Republic of China and subsequent People's Republic of China which have claimed that these areas remained integral parts of China.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Qing-Empire   (4540 words)

  
 The School of Russian and Asian Studies: Regions & Cities: Eastern Siberia: Ulan-Ude
The Buryats were originally nomadic herders, with cultural and language similarities to the Mongolians and religious similarities to Tibetan Buddhists.
Today Ulan-Ude is the capital of the Buryat Republic of the Russian Federation with a population of 353,000.
The Buryat Republic borders the Irkutsk and Chita regions, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia, and stretches along the Eastern Shore of the world's deepest lake - Lake Baikal.
www.sras.org /7134/cities.phtml?m=59   (275 words)

  
 SFU Museum: Russian Traditional Village Life
The Buryats are a group of peoples who prior to the arrival of Russian influence in Siberia were a nomadic herding people.
As the Buryat peoples were nomadic their movements, their contacts resulted in shared cultural and linguistic traits with the Mongolians and shared religious traits with Tibetan Buddhists.
During the 1930's the Buryat culture and the Buddhist religion were heavily persecuted by the repressive Stalinist regime.
www.sfu.ca /archaeology/museum/russia/buryat.htm   (394 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Buryat
The republic is mountainous and heavily forested and has rivers and lakes that are rich in...
The area is crossed by the Trans-Siberian RR, and coal is mined in the west.
353,000), capital of the Buryat Republic, SE Siberian Russia, on the Selenga River near its confluence with the Uda.
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 Buryat Traditional Music
Buryatia, an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation, lies in south-central Siberia near Lake Baikal and the Mongolian-Chinese border.
Stalin's desire that cultural expression in Soviet republics be national in form but socialist in content led to the formation of many ensembles, both professional and amateur, that proclaimed the glory of the USSR using the musical idioms and language of indigenous groups.
Naturally, not all young Buryats are merrily leaving their apartments for felt tents, but at least symbolically, many are seeking the nomadic road forward by walking the paths of their ancestors.
www.fas.harvard.edu /~asiactr/haq/200001/0001a007.htm   (2301 words)

  
 The School of Russian and Asian Studies: Educational Institutions: Universities: Buryat State University
Buryat State University was founded in 1995 on the basis of Buryat State Teachers Training Institute and the Ulan-Ude Branch of Novosibirsk State University.
To satisfy the Republic's and neighboring regions' skilled personnel requirements some new faculties were opened (faculties of economics and management, law, medicine, social psychology).
Not all the students are residents of the Buryat Republic, many coming from neighboring regions and from abroad (Mongolia, China, Republic of Korea, Japan, Turkey, and USA).
www.sras.org /university.phtml?m=14   (271 words)

  
 Red Stars Travel  Agency - Tours and Travel - What You Need To Know About Our Tours
The Buryat Republic (Buryatia) is a republic in the Russian Federation.
The republic's economy is based on agriculture, the timber and food industries and fur farming.
The ancestors of the modern Buryats are Mongols who made their home near Lake Baikal long before Genghis Khan swept through Asia during the early thirteenth century and have remained in the area until modern times.
www.travel2russia.com /destguide/city11.htm   (3013 words)

  
 Regional Overview of the Autonomous Republic of Buryatia, Russia
The activities of the National Bank of the Republic of Buryatia are governed by laws passed by the Russian Federation and by the policies of the Central Bank of Russia.
The Buryat Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Science with its specialized research departments, 4 universities, and over 20 secondary technical and specialized schools will provide the large scientific base helping to determine the future economic development of Buryatia.
The Buryat Research Center is one of the biggest scientific centers in Siberia where about 150 doctors and 1000 candidates of science do research in different fields of science and technique.
www.russiancouncil.org /reports/buryatia1.htm   (4253 words)

  
 ISCIP - Perspective
When Stalin's cronies were apportioning union republics to peoples with over a million in population, the Tatars qualified, but were denied the status, perhaps a slap against their already jailed "National Communist" leader Sultan Galiev.
The homeland of the Mongolic Buryats, surrounding Lake Baikal, was divided into the Buryat Autonomous Republic, and the Agin and Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrugs, with interspersed regions considered Russian.
Many Sakha, including republic president Nikolaev, reason that even if they had direct control of a mere 30 percent of their natural resources (oil, gas, gold and diamonds in abundance), they would be rich, and in a position to align themselves with Japanese, Korean and Western businessmen.
www.bu.edu /iscip/vol2/Balzer.html   (1570 words)

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