Transbaikal (Russian: Забайкалье [Zabajkal'e]) or Dauria (Russian: Даурия [Daurija]) is a mountainous region to the east of or "beyond" (trans-) Lake Baikal in Russia. It stretches for almost 1000 km from north to south from the Patomskoye and North Baikal table-lands to the Russian state border. The Transbaikal region covers more that a 1000 km from west to east from the Lake Baikal to the meridian of the confluence of the Shilka and Argun Rivers. In Imperial Russia, Transbaikal was itself an oblast with its capital at Chita and became part of the Far Eastern Republic in 1920. It is currently divided into Buryatia and Chita Oblast and makes up nearly all of the territopry of these two Russian subdivisions. Mount McKinley in Alaska has one of the largest visible base-to-summit elevation differences anywhere A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... A compass rose with east highlighted East is most commonly a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. ... Trans is a Latin word meaning across, beyond or on the opposite side and is the opposite of cis, which means on the same side. In chemistry, a bond not subject to free rotation in which the greater radical on both ends is on the opposite side of the bond... Lake Baikal The Yenisei River basin, Lake Baikal, and the cities of Dikson, Dudinka, Turukhansk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk Lake Baikal (Russian: О́зеро Байка́л (Ozero Baykal)), a lake in southern Siberia, Russia, between Irkutsk Oblast on the northwest and Buryatia on the southeast, near Irkutsk. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure). ... Compass rose with north highlighted and at top North is one of the four cardinal directions, specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the primary direction: north is used (explicitly or implicitly) to define all other directions; the (visual) top edges of maps usually correspond to the... A compass rose with South highlighted South is most commonly a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. ... Border has several different, but related meanings: // Generic borders A border can consist of a margin around the edge of something, such as a lawn, garden, photograph, or sheet of paper. ... A compass rose with west highlighted This article refers to the cardinal direction; for other uses see West (disambiguation). ... Meridian is: Meridian (astronomy): an imaginary circle perpendicular to the horizon. ... Shilka is a river in Chita Oblast, South-Eastern Russia of length 560 km (348 miles). ... Argun (Russian: Аргу́нь) is the Russian name of a river which is a part of the Russia-China border. ... Big Coat of Arms of the Russian Empire, adopted in 1882 Flag of Russian Empire Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean... An oblast (Slavonian verbalism or term, Czech: oblast, Slovak: oblasÅ¥, Russian, Ukrainian: о́бласть, Bulgarian: о́бласт) English equivalent area, province or zone. ... Chita (Russian: Чита́) is a city in Russia, and functions as the administrative center of Chita Oblast in eastern Siberia. ... Flag of the Far Eastern Republic The Far Eastern Republic (Russian: Дальневосто́чная Респу́блика (ДВР); English transliteration: Dalnevostochnaya Respublika (DVR)) was a nominally independent state established in the former Russian Far East and Siberia east of Lake Baikal on April 6, 1920. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events WIKIPEDIA EATS VAGINA January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... The Buryat Republic (Russian: Респу́блика Буря́тия; Buryat: Буряад Республика) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Being the largest country in the world, and one of the most populated, Russia incorporates several types and levels of subdivisions. ...

The region has given its name to various animal species including Daurian Hedgehog, and the following birds: Asian Brown Flycatcher (Muscicapa dauurica), Daurian Jackdaw, Daurian Partridge, Daurian Redstart, Daurian Starling and the Red-rumped Swallow (Hirundo daurica). In biology, the most commonly used definition of species was first coined by Ernst Mayr. ... Binomial name Mesechinus dauuricus (Sundevall, 1842) Daurian hedgehog a solitary small insectivore. ... Binomial name Muscicapa dauurica Pallas, 1811 The Asian Brown Flycatcher, Muscicapa dauurica, is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae. ... Binomial name Corvus dauricus Pallas, 1776 The Daurian Jackdaw (Corvus dauricus) is a member of the crow family of birds. ... Binomial name Perdix dauurica (Pallas, 1811) The Daurian Partridge Perdix dauurica is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. ... Binomial name Hirundo daurica Linnaeus, 1771 The Red-rumped Swallow (Hirundo daurica) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family. ...

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