Ulan-Ude

Ulan-Ude (; , Ulaan-Üde) is the caipital ceety o the Republic o Buryatie, Roushie an is locatit aboot 100 kilometres (62 mi) sootheast o Loch Baikal on the Uda River at its confluence wi the Selenga. Accordin tae the 2010 Census, 404,426 fowk lived in Ulan-Ude; up frae 359,391 recordit in the 2002 Census, makin the ceety the third lairgest in eastren Siberie bi population.

Names
Ulan-Ude wis first cried Udinskoye () for its location on the Uda River. Frae aroond 1735, the settlement wis cried Udinsk () an wis grantit toun status unner that name in 1775.

The name wis chynged tae Verkhneudinsk, literally "Upper Udinsk" (), in 1783 tae differentiate it frae Nizhneudinsk ("Lawer Udinsk") lyin on a different Uda River near Irkutsk which gained toun status that year. The "upper" an "lawer" refer tae positions o the twa ceeties relative tae ilk ither, no the location o the ceeties on their respective Uda rivers. Verkhneudinsk lies at the mouth o its Uda, i.e. the lawer end, while Nizhneudinsk is alang the middle stretch o its Uda.

The current name wis gien tae the ceety in 1934 an means "reid Uda" or "reid gate" in Buryat reflectin the communist ideology o the Soviet Union tae which it belanged.

Internaitional relations

Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Ulan-Ude is twinned wi:
 Anyang, Sooth Korea.
 Berkeley, Unitit States.
 Changchun, Cheenae.
 Darkhan, Mongolie.
 Erdenet, Mongolie.
 Hohhot, Cheenae.
 Kazan, Roushie.Kazan celebrates its 1000 year anniversary 
 Manchuria, Cheenae.Информация Администрации г. Улан-Удэ о развитии международных и межрегиональных связей за 2004 г.
 Mannheim, Germany.Ulan Ude looking for sister cities 
 Rumoi, Japan.The Russian presence in Japan
 Taipei, Taiwan.Sister cities list 
 Ulan Bator, Mongolie.
 Yalta, Ukraine.Yalta and Ulan Ude become sister cities
 Yamagata, Japan.

References


Category:Populatit places established in 1666