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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. On 11 July 1995 Buryatia signed a power-sharing agreement with the federal government, granting it autonomy. [21] This agreement was abolished on 15 February 2002. [22]
In May 1923, the republic was created with the name Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic; [1] its predecessor was the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Oblast . When the republic was formed, "Buryat-Mongolian" language was declared the official language.
Fearing Buryat nationalism, Joseph Stalin had more than 10,000 Buryats killed. [27] Moreover, Stalinist purge of Buryats spread into Mongolia, known as the incident of L'humbee. In 1958, the name "Mongol" was removed from the name of the republic (Buryat ASSR). Also around 1958, the Mongolian script was banned and replaced by Cyrillic. [5]
The Buryat liberation movement is the centuries-long social and military confrontation of ethnic Buryats against the Russian Empire, which actually colonized the region. In modern history - rallies and actions against the policy of the Russian Federation (in particular, against discrimination of the Buryat people on national and linguistic grounds).
In October 1991, Leonid Potapov was elected chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Buryatia. He won the 1994 election, becoming the first President of the Republic. On 26 April 2011, the People's Khural (parliament) adopted amendments to the Constitution of Buryatia, renaming the office to the "Head of the Republic" from 2012.
In the young republic, Buryats held all key positions in the government, but in the early 1930s, a wave of Soviet repression against Buryat intellectuals and party figures began. This effectively became an ethnic cleansing at the level of the republic's state administration, with Moscow-appointed politicians replacing the repressed and executed ...
The main government body was Burnatskom, the Buryat National Committee. [1] The state de facto ceased to exist after the formation of the Far Eastern Republic, which divided Buryat-Mongolia in two: 4 aimags became part of the Far Eastern Republic, while the other 4 formed Buryat-Mongol autonomies of RSFSR.
Ivolginsky District (‹See Tfd› Russian: Иволги́нский райо́н; Buryat: Эбилгын аймаг, Ebilgyn aimag) is an administrative [1] and municipal [4] district , one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia. It is located in the center of the republic.