Transbaikal
Transbaikal, Trans-Baikal, Transbaikalia, or Dauria is a mountainous region to the east of or "beyond" Lake Baikal in Russia.
The steppe and wetland landscapes of Dauria are protected by the Daurian Nature Reserve, which forms part of a World Heritage Site named "The Landscapes of Dauria".The alternative name, Dauria, is derived from the ethnonym of the Daur people. It stretches for almost 1,000 km from north to south from the Patom Plateau and North Baikal Plateau to the Russian state border. The Transbaikal region covers more than 1,000 km from west to east from Baikal to the meridian of the confluence of the Shilka and Argun Rivers.
The ancient proto-Mongol Slab Grave Culture occurred around Lake Baikal in the Transbaikal territory.
In Imperial Russia, Dauria was itself an oblast with its capital at Nerchinsk, then at Chita and became part of the short lived Far Eastern Republic between 1920 and 1922. It is currently divided into Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai and makes up nearly all of the territory of these two federal subjects.The region has given its name to various animal species including Daurian hedgehog, and the following birds: Asian brown flycatcher, Daurian jackdaw, Daurian partridge, Daurian redstart, Daurian starling, Daurian shrike and the red-rumped swallow. The Mongolian wild ass is extinct in the region.
The common name of the famous Dahurian larch as well as that of the Dahurian buckthorn are also derived from the same source.Geography
village, Amur Oblast, near the Russia-China border is a large site of uranium mining and processing facilities.
Part of the area is protected by the Dauria Nature Reserve.
