Editing Ulan-Ude (section)

==History==
The first occupants of the area where Ulan-Ude now stands were the [[Evenks]] and, later, the [[Buryats|Buryat Mongols]]. Ulan-Ude was settled in 1666 by the Russian [[Cossacks]] as the fortress of Udinskoye. Due to its favorable geographical position, it grew rapidly and became a large trade center which connected Russia with [[China]] and [[Mongolia]] and, from 1690, was the administrative center of the [[Transbaikal]] region.{{cn|date=December 2022}}

By 1775, it was known as Udinsk, and in 1783 it was granted city status and renamed Verkhneudinsk. After a large fire in 1878, the city was almost completely rebuilt. The [[Trans-Siberian Railway]] reached the city in 1900 causing an explosion in growth. The population, which was 3,500 in 1880, reached 126,000 in 1939.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/place/Ulan-Ude ''britannica.com'']</ref>

From 6 April to October 1920, [[Verkhneudinsk]] was the capital of the [[w:Far Eastern Republic|Far Eastern Republic (Дальневосточная Республика)]], also known as the Chita Republic.<ref name="Bisher">{{Cite book |last=Bisher |first=Jamie |title=White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian |date=June 2005 |isbn=9781135765958 |pages=302–03|publisher=Routledge }}</ref> It was a nominally independent state that existed from April 1920 to November 1922 in the easternmost part of the Russian Far East. On 27 July 1934, the city was renamed Ulan-Ude.{{cn|date=December 2022}}