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Primary sources and historical accounts — travel writing, documents and studies of the Buryat past.

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A Journey in Southern Siberia — HTML edition (Internet Sacred Text Archive)

A convenient page-by-page HTML edition of the same book by Curtin (1900/1909) with a table of contents for chapters on myths, rituals, and travel notes — practical navigation to supplement the archive.org scan.

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Anburseura — «Kirjoitettu mongolin kieli» [Written Mongolian language] (2020)

A Finnish article regarding the script changes of the Buryat language (Latin 1931–39 → Cyrillic 1941).

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Biblioteka Polsko-Syberyjska [Polish-Siberian Library] (PTPN, Poznań)

A portal regarding Polish-Siberian connections (exiled researchers, expeditions); Buryat specificity is not directly confirmed, but the context is relevant.

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British Library EAP927 — Rare historical sources of Mongolia

Digitised archival copies from Mongolia as part of the Endangered Archives Programme, including a 1712 document concerning a border post in the Kyakhta region — a source on border history and the early frontier.

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Buryat-Russian Encyclopedia (bsk.nios.ru) — article «Buryat Chronicles»

An encyclopaedic overview of the Buryat chronicle genre — providing context and a reference entry point before reading the chronicles themselves on vostlit.info.

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Dissertation: The historical process of formation, development and self-determination of the Buryat people

An example of a Russian dissertation on the ethnic history of the Buryats; the author's abstract is free, the full text is paid.

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Dorji Banzarov — "The Black Faith, or Shamanism Among the Mongols" (trans. Nattier & Krueger, Mongolian Studies, 1981)

English translation of the foundational work by the 19th-century Buryat scholar Dorji Banzarov on Mongol shamanism — a fundamental source for the intellectual history and study of Buryat/Mongol religious traditions.

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Eastern Literature (vostlit.info) — Buryat chronicles

Russian translations of Buryat chronicles (Khorin, Selenga, Bargazin), including the 1887 Chronicle of the Bargazin Buryats — primary sources on the clan history of Transbaikal Buryats.

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ETNOznawcy — biogram of Julian Talko-Hryncewicz

Biographical context regarding the researcher of Buryats, Julian Talko-Hryncewicz — complements his 1909 work.

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Irkipedia — Buryats, bibliography

A collection of articles and a bibliography regarding the Pre-Baikal (Irkutsk) Buryats — serving as a counterpoint to the Transbaikal bias found in the majority of chronicle sources.

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Jeremiah Curtin — "A Journey in Southern Siberia: The Mongols, Their Religion and Their Myths" (1909)

Internet Archive scan (original Little, Brown, 1909): travelogue, photographs, map, and extensive Buryat narratives, including Geser material related to Manshuud Emegueev.

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Kontroversen um die Nationalitätenpolitik der Republik Burjatien [Controversies regarding the nationality policy of the Republic of Buryatia] (BIOst, 1997)

A rare full-text German analysis of the national policy of the post-Soviet Republic of Buryatia.

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Kremlin.ru — decree on the merger of the Ust-Orda Buryat Okrug

An official legal anchor for fact-checking the merger of the Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug with the Irkutsk Oblast (dissolution of okrugs 2006–2008).

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Official materials from egov-buryatia.ru regarding the Republican Book of Remembrance of the Victims of Repression

Official pages of the Government of Buryatia containing links to the Republican Book of Remembrance of the victims of political repression and data on more than 20,000 repressed residents in the 1930s.

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Oirats and Tribes of Bargudzhin-oron (Minpaku OA article)

An open-access article on the Oirats and the tribes of Bargudzhin-Tokum — one of the few available materials regarding the pre-Mongol and Mongol prehistory of Buryat ethnogenesis.

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Qurïqan (Central Asiatic Journal)

In-depth study of the Qurïqan (Kuri) and their role in Buryat ethnogenesis — a strong source on the pre-Mongol period, despite paywalled access to the full text.

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Talko-Hryncewicz — «Ludy Azyi środkowej... Mongoło-buryatów» (1909, RCIN)

A 1909 scan of a work by a Polish exiled researcher regarding the Mongol-Buryat peoples of Central Asia (PDF 40MB, verified).

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WIPO Lex — constitutional norm on the liquidation of the Agin Buryat Okrug

Official legal text recording the termination of the existence of the Agin Buryat Autonomous Okrug as of 1 March 2008 — an anchor for fact-checking the administrative reform.

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