The Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Buryat

Buryat language

Buryat is a Mongolic variety spoken by the Buryats that is either classified as a language or as a major dialect group of Mongolian. The majority of Buryat speakers live in Russia along the northern border of Mongolia where it is an official language in the Buryat Republic, Ust-Orda Buryatia and...

: Буряадай Автономито Совет Социалис Республика; ) was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the former Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

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In 1923, the republic was created with the name Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1958, the name "Mongol" was removed from the name of the republic. The Buryat ASSR declared its sovereignty in 1990 and adopted the name Republic of Buryatia in 1992. However, it remained an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation.

See also

• Buryatia