Bayanday

Bayanday lies west of Lake Baikal in the country of the Buryats. Its name is associated with a Buryat expression for rich land, and local tradition also preserves the name of Bayanday among its ancestral figures. In the second half of the seventeenth century Russian Cossacks used the place as a stopping point on the route from the upper Lena toward the source of the Angara.