Буклет "Бичуре-300 лет"

Bichura, happy birthday!

300 years old.

History

The Bichursky aimag of the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR was formed on February 11, 1935.

On February 1, 1963, Bichursky aimag was included in Mukhorshibirsky aimag.

On January 11, 1965, the Bichursky aimag was re-formed due to the disaggregation of the Mukhorshibirsky aimag.

In October 1977, the Bichursky aimak of the Buryat ASSR was renamed into the Bichursky district.

 The regional center of the Bichursky district is the village of Bichura.

Territorial device

Bichursky district is divided into the following administrative-territorial units: 13 village councils and 5 soums.

The municipal district includes 17 municipalities with the status of rural settlements. The latter correspond to village councils and soums

General information about the village of Bichura

Bichura is a village in the Republic of Buryatia, the administrative center of the Bichursky municipal district. It is located on both banks of the Bichura River, near its confluence with the Khilok, 190 km south of the republican center - the city of Ulan-Ude. The village stretches along the Bichura valley from the northwest to the southeast for 11 km.

Population - 9,145 people (2010).

The village of Bichura is the administrative center of the municipality "Rural settlement Bichurskoye"

Sights of Bichura

 Bichurskaya Old Orthodox Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos

The Old Orthodox Church in the name of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos is an Old Believer church. Consecrated in 2000. The iconostasis of the church consists mainly of Old Believer icons, brought to Siberia by Semeyskie, icons, exiled by Catherine II from Vetka and Starodubye.

Name of the pupil: Badmaeva S. B.

MBEI “Potaninskaya school”

Form 8

Scientific adviser: Damyanova O.B

Monument to the Women-Workers of the Home Front

 The Monument to Women -  Home Front Workers was erected in honor of women who worked in the Bichursky district during the Great Patriotic War. A sculptural group consisting of two women, two collective images of the Buryat and Russian peoples. A Buryat woman holds a lamb in her hands, as a symbol of the fact that the Buryats were more engaged in animal husbandry, and a Russian woman is depicted with a sheaf of wheat, because the Russians had no equal in arable farming. The project was completed by the famous Buryat sculptor Vladimir Pospelov in a very short time.

Kommunisticheskaya Street (former Moscowskaya, Bolshaya) - according to the Guinness Book of Records, is considered the longest rural street in the world. Its length is 18 km. The village of Bichura itself is also the largest Semey (Old Believer) village in Transbaikalia. Bichura was founded by Old Believers - Semeyskie, resettled by decree of Catherine II of December 14, 1762 from Poland. The village was distinguished by a high natural population growth, which was not noted anywhere in the whole history of the peoples and villages of Siberia.