Ulus (term)
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An ulus (Russian: улу́с; Sakha: улуус) is a type of an administrative-territorial unit in two of the republics of Russia. The word means "nation" or "country" in many Turkic and Mongolic languages.
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[edit] Buryat Republic
In the Buryat Republic, "ulus" is a type of rural locality, along with "selo" and "settlement".[1]
[edit] Sakha Republic
A typical federal subject of Russia is subdivided into districts (raions). Ulus is an ethnic name for a district, used only in the Sakha Republic.
The Sakha Republic is administratively divided into five cities under the Republic's jurisdiction and 33 uluses. The law of the Sakha Republic establishes that the terms "ulus" and "district" are equivalent.[2] In the course of the Russian municipal reform, two urban okrugs and 34 municipal districts were formed on the basis of the Republic's administrative divisions.[3]
The municipal districts with predominantly Russian population (Aldansky, Lensky, Mirninsky, Momsky, Neryungrinsky, and Tomponsky) do not utilize the term "ulus" in their official names.[3]
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[edit] References
- ^ Закон Республики Бурятия №2433-III "Об административно-территориальном устройстве Республики Бурятия" от 10 сентября 2007 г. (Law of the Buryat Republic #2433-III of September 10, 2007 On the Administrative and Territorial Structure of the Buryat Republic.
- ^ Law Z#77-I of July 6, 1995 "On Administrative and Territorial Structure of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic", with amendments
- ^ a b Law 172-Z, #351-III of November 30, 2004 "On Establishing the Borders of and Gonferring the Status of Municipal Districts upon the Municipal Divisions of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic"
