Oulan-Oudé

Oulan-Oude (; Buriat: Улаан-Үдэ) is a city located in Russia. The city quickly took its rise like centers exchanges between Russia, China and Mongolia. It is the capital of the République of Bouriatie. Its population is of: 359391 inhabitants. It is the third city by the size of the east of the Siberia.

The city is founded in 1666 by the Cosaque S like a camp of summer on the river bank Ouda to approximately 100 km in the south-east of the Lac Baïkal. A fort is built there in 1659 and it becomes a center of taking away of the tax (Iassak) on the populations autochtones. Become a place of fair, it is promoted city in 1783 and takes the name of Verkhnéoudinsk then (High Ouda). It is increased thereafter according to a checkerboard plan. The railway line of the Transsibérien arrives in the city in 1900. The population which was of 3 500 inhabitants in 1880 passes to 126 000 inhabitants the day before the second world war. The city is renamed in 1934 Oulan-Oudé (Red-Ouda). Until 1991, Oulan-Oudé is a city closed prohibited the abroads.

The city is located at the foot of two assembly lines the Khamar-Daban and Oulan-Bourgassy and is close to the junction between the river Selenga and the river Ouda, its affluent, which separates the city in two districts.

The downtown area, at the edge of the river, comprises hurdy-gurdies houses of merchants richly decorated with stone and wood sculptures. The city is also known for the monumental sculpture of the head of Lénine exposed on the principal place. The city includes/understands a large ethnographic museum which recalls the history of the people of the area: the Evenks, the first occupant of the area, and Buriat S, people of Mongolian origin. The city is the capital of Buddhism Tibetan in Russia: not far from the city a large Buddhist monastery is: the datsan of Ivolginsk (face of ultimate, but restrictive tolerance of an atheistic capacity towards a thousand-year-old faith). The city counts two large industrial complexes of which one built of the engines (APO) and the other of the planes and helicopters (OuAZ). There exists in addition of other industries in the mechanical, electric sector and the die wood.

The city comprises an airport. The railway line of the Transmongolien which serves Ulan-Bator and Beijing separates from that of the Transsibérien in Oulan-Oude.

Simple: Ulan-Ude

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