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Ust-Ordyn Buryat

former district, Russia
Also known as: Ust-Orda Buryat, Ust-Ordynsky Buryat
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Ust-Ordyn Buryat, former autonomous okrug (district), south-central Siberia, Russia. In 2008 the district was absorbed by Irkutsk oblast (region).

Ust-Ordyn Buryat lies west of Lake Baikal and extends across the Angara River. The okrug was created in 1937. Its plateau relief is partly in boreal forest, or taiga, of larch, spruce, fir, pine, and birch and partly in forest-steppe. Coal is mined in the west, where the Trans-Siberian Railroad crosses the area. Timberwork is well developed, but agriculture, mainly pig husbandry and dairying, is confined to the forest-steppe of the west and south. The indigenous Buryat live mostly in rural areas, and the urban population is mainly Russian. Ust-Ordynsky city was the capital of the okrug. Area 8,600 square miles (22,400 square km). Pop. (2010) 125,177; (2013 est.) 123,493.

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