AGIN-BURYAT AUTONOMOUS AREA

əgyēnˌbooryätˈ or Aga Buryatägˈə booryätˈ, administrative division (1995 pop. 79,400), 7,000 sq mi (19,000 sq km), S Siberian Russia, Chita region. Formed in 1937, the area follows the Onon River. Aginskoye, the capital, is an administrative center. The chief occupation is livestock herding, while in the warmer areas grain is grown. Buryats, Buddhist descendants of the Mongols, make up about 54% of the area's population, with the remainder being mostly Russians (40%).

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USSR, a Concise Handbook
Book by Ernest J. Simmons; Cornell University Press, 1947
Subjects: Russia
...USSR 1941 estimate AREA In sq. miles est...and Siberia Moscow Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics BASKHIR ASSR BURYAT-MONGOLIAN ASSR...ASSR YAKUTIA ASSR Autonomous Regions ADYGEI AR...National Districts AGIN BURYAT MONGOL ND CHUKOTSKY...
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Understanding the Russians, a Study of Soviet Life and Culture
Book by Bernhard J. Stern, Samuel Smith; Barnes and Noble, Inc., 1947
Subjects: Soviet Union--Civilization
...2 1941 estimate AREA In sq. miles est...Tatar, 2.8% Autonomous Soviet Socialist...Southwest Urals Ufa BURYAT-MONGOLIAN ASSR 1923 569,713 Mongol Buryat, 43.8%; Russian...Northeast Siberia Yakutsk Autonomous Regions ADYGEI AR...National Districts AGIN BURYAT MONGOL ND...
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Federalism and Democratisation in Russia
Book by Cameron Ross; Manchester University Press, 2002
Subjects: Democratization--Russia (Federation), Federal Government--Russia (Federation), Russia (Federation)--Politics And Government--1991-
...kilometres away. The area in question has a...confederacy. 24 The autonomous formations The ten autonomous okrugs (AOs) which...federal subjects. The Agin- Buryat AO within Chita Oblast...in 1997) then the autonomous okrug is equal in...


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Municipal Reform in the Russian Federation and Putin's "electoral Vertical"
Journal article by Cameron Ross; Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 15, 2007
Subjects: Candidates, Democracy, Elections, Federalism, Law, Legislation, Local government, Politics, Presidents, Reforms, Self government
...in the following areas: "local taxes...Ordinsk Buryat Autonomous Okrug. Where parties...percent; in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, 84.6...percent; and in Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug, 80.1...no other policy area in Russian politics...


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Agin-Buryat Autonomous Area
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AGIN-BURYAT AUTONOMOUS AREA gyen booryat or Aga Buryat ag booryat , former administrative...Formed in 1937, the area followed the Onon River...made up about 54% of the areas population. In 2008 the autonomous area was merged with the surrounding...


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