Short answers, pulled from the story.
60% of the shoreline of Lake Baikal lies within Buryatia. This body of water curves through the south-central region of Siberia and holds a majority of its shore inside this republic.
Ulan-Ude became the present-day capital in 1934 when authorities renamed the fort of Udinskoye. The fort itself was originally founded in 1666 and later known as Verkhneudinsk before receiving its current name.
Serb Sava Vladislavich established Kyakhta as a trading point with the Qing Empire starting from 1727. This location served as the official border crossing for trade between Russia and China during that period.
The 2021 Census recorded a total population of 978,588 people across the republic. Ethnic Russians made up 64% of the population while ethnic Buryats comprised 32.5% of the total count.
The Local Religious Organization of Shamans Tengeri registered officially as a religious organization in 2003. Traditional belief systems based on nature deification were led by shamans prior to this formal recognition.