Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

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Buryatia

The Buryat ASSR ( Russian Бурятская АССР ; Buryat Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic ) was an autonomous Soviet republic within the RSFSR within the Soviet Union . It existed from 1923 to 1992, until 1958 under the name Buryat-Mongolian ASSR . The capital was Ulan-Ude . It was south and east of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia . In 1990, only about one million people lived on 351,300 square kilometers, 43 percent of them in cities. In the south the area borders on Mongolia . Today, as the Republic of Buryatia , the region is a federal subject of Russia . The Buryat language is spoken to this day in southwest Siberia, northwest Manchuria in China and parts of Mongolia; in the Republic of Buryatia it is the second official language. Gold, tungsten, graphite and coal are found in the area.

Main Inner Belt Asteroid (2593) Buryatia was named after the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

literature

  • Yevgeny Zhukov and others: Sovetskaya istoritscheskaja enziklopedija: Tom 2 . Sowetskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1962, col. 855 ff. (Russian)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp.  186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on August 24, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1976 GB 8 . Discovered 1976 Apr. 2 by NS Chernykh at Nauchnyj. ”