Barguzinsky District ( Russian : Баргузи́нский райо́н ; Buryat : Баргажанай аймаг , Bargajanai aimag ) is an administrative and municipal district ( raion ), one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia , Russia . It is located in the northeast of the republic. The area of the district is 18,553 square kilometers (7,163 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo ) of Barguzin . As of the 2010 Census , the total population of the district was 23,598, with the population of Barguzin accounting for 24.2% of that number.
11-584: The district is situated at the mouth of the Barguzin River within the Barguzin Valley. The absolute height of the bottom of the basin ranges from 500 to 700 meters (1,600 to 2,300 ft), whereas the elevation of the surrounding mountain ranges up to 2,000–2,700 meters (6,600–8,900 ft) above sea level . In floodplain areas and terraces, the Barguzin River and its tributaries are characterized by
22-529: A river in Buryatia , Russia , 480 km (300 mi) long, flowing into the Barguzin Bay of Lake Baikal , the largest and deepest bay of Baikal. Barguzin is the third (by the flow amount) inflow of Baikal, after the rivers Selenga and Upper Angara . Its watershed area is 21,100 km (8,100 sq mi). It is navigable for 204 km (127 mi) upwards from its estuary . Its main tributaries are
33-749: A runaway from the Akatuy katorga : Akatuy katorga Akatuy katorga prison ( Russian : Акатуйская каторжная тюрьма, Akatuyskaya katorzhnaya tyur'ma), part of the Nerchinsk katorga system of the Russian Empire , was situated in the present-day Alexandrovo-Zavodsky District of Transbaikalia . It was constructed in 1888 at the Akatuyskiy mine, what is now the village of New Akatuy [ ru ] (Новый Акатуй). Originally labor convicts (mostly criminal) were used here for extraction of lead-silver ores. After
44-498: A steady, strong wind on Baikal. The air flow rushes onto Baikal from the Barguzin Valley and blows across the lake at its middle, mostly for no longer than a day (starting at sunrise and ending by sunset). Usually it brings sunny weather. In Barguzin Bay, it may be of hurricane strength, but its average speed is usually less than 20 m/s. The wind is commemorated in the Russian folk song about
55-461: Is incorporated as an urban settlement, and the six selsoviets and three somons are incorporated as nine rural settlements within the municipal district. The selo of Barguzin serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district. Barguzin River The Barguzin ( Russian : Баргузи́н ; Buryat : Баргажан , romanized: Bargajan ) is
66-497: Is one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia . It is divided into one urban-type settlement (an administrative division with the administrative center in the urban-type settlement (an inhabited locality) of Ust-Barguzin ), six selsoviets , and three somons , which comprise thirty-three rural localities . As a municipal division , the district is incorporated as Barguzinsky Municipal District . The urban-type settlement
77-616: The Gagra , Argada and Ina from the left, and the Ulyun from the right. In 1648, Ivan Galkin founded an ostrog on the Barguzin. In its middle part, the river flows along the Barguzin Valley or Depression ( Russian : Баргузинская котловина ), which is 200 km (120 mi) long and up to 35 km (22 mi) wide and runs between the Barguzin Range (to the northwest) and Ikat Range (to
88-399: The alternation of a mosaic of meadow steppe, steppe, and wetland spaces. Forest vegetation prevails in the foothill areas and on the slopes of the rivers, up to 1,100–1,300 meters (3,600–4,300 ft) altitude. The forests are rich in berries, mushrooms, and nuts. The district was established on December 23, 1923. Within the framework of administrative divisions , Barguzinsky District
99-583: The closing of the Kara katorga in 1890, it became one of the main centers of detention of political prisoners . It was turned into a women's penal camp in 1911 and was finally shut down after the February Revolution of 1917. George Kennan visited the remnants of the mine in 1885. He noted: "Lunin, one of the Decembrist conspirators of 1825 , lived and died in penal servitude at this mine, and somewhere in
110-522: The neighborhood lie buried many of the Polish patriots sent to Akatui after the insurrection of 1863 . The Russian Government does not take pains to perpetuate the memory of the political offenders whom it tortures to death in its Siberian prisons, and over moldering bodies of most of them there is not so much as a mound. If there is in Siberia a more lonely, a more cheerless, a more God-forsaken place than Kara, it
121-524: The southeast). It also forms the western limit of the Southern Muya Range . In the valley, the river branches, loops, leaves old riverbeds, and creates a swampy water network with more than 1,000 lakes. In the valley is the Dzherga Nature Reserve ( Russian : Джергинский государственный природный заповедник ) encompassing 2,387 km (922 sq mi). The river also gave its name to
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