Angoya

Angoya lies on the northern shore of Lake Baikal, in the Buryat country that Russian service men reached in the 1640s. Semyon Skorokhod founded a settlement at the northern end of the lake in 1643, later known as Nizhneangarsk, and Vasily Kolesnik built a fort there in 1646. From these posts Russian collectors demanded yasak from the Buryats, who herded cattle and horses and hunted in the forested mountains around the lake.