Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

The Buryat ASSR (Russian Бурятская АССР; Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) was an autonomous Soviet republic within the RSFSR within the Soviet Union. It consisted 1923-1992, and 1958 under the name of Buryat - Mongolian ASSR. The capital was Ulan -Ude. She lay south and east of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia. At 351 300 square kilometers in 1990, only about one million people, of which 43 percent lived in cities. In the south the region borders on Mongolia. Today, the area known as the Republic of Buryatia is a federal subject of Russia. The Buryat language is spoken today in southwest Siberia in the north- west of Manchuria in China and parts of Mongolia; in the Republic of Buryatia is the second official language. In the field of the natural resources of gold, tungsten, graphite and charcoal occur.