Kuytun

Kuytun belongs to the inland country west of Lake Baikal. A local history of the settlement records Buryat summer camps in the area, where families brought sheep to pasture near springs. Russian expansion into the wider Angara region brought Cossacks and settlers into contact with Buryat communities during the seventeenth century.

The local library records Kuytun as a roadside settlement on the Siberian route, which carried official mail and freight in the eighteenth century. Its account suggests an earlier origin in the 1680s.