Buryatia: History

Buryat kins and tribes in ancient times and the Middle Ages formed a single ethnic generality with other Mongolish tribes. The ancient and the Middle Ages history of Buryatia is an integral part of single Mongolian community. First the ethnonym Buryat was mentioned in Mongolian work "Concealed legends" (1240) parallel with such tribes as Buryats, Hory-Tumats, Bulgachins, Keremuchins and other tribes, which became later a member of Buryat ethnos.

Buryat tribes in ancient times lived in northern outskirts of Mongolian world in region called Bargudshchin-Tukut, on both sides of lake Baikal.
In epoch of Chingiskhan and chingisids Buryats became a member of Great Mongolian State.
In the middle of 17th century Buryatia was joined to Russia and that's way the territories of both sides of Baikal were disjoined from Mongolia. Under conditions of Russian State system began the consolidation's process of various groups and tribes. The new administrative political government (for the factors of this process), entering into Russian economic administrative system, ethnocultural influence of Russian people became the factors of this process. As a result to the end of the 19th century the new community -Buryats ethnos was formed to the end of the 19th century.

Koshchevnikove Julia, scientific worker of informational methodical section
of Irkutsk Regional Museum of local lore.

The source is - CD “Encyclopedia of Baikal” (version 1.1.2003)