Balagansk

Balagansk is an urban locality a piece settlement and the place of job of Balagansky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. It is located on the left bank of the Angara River, downstream from Svirsk and 285 kilometres with the aid of road northwest of Irkutsk and to the southeast of Sayansk. On 3 facets of Balagansk is the Bratsk Reservoir. The agreement is exceptional regarded for Balagansk Prison, which turned into used as one of the Siberian exile camps in the course of the Stalin generation.

Balagansk was founded in 1654 at the left bank of the Angara River opposite to the mouth of the Unga River via the Cossack detachment led by using Dmitry Firsov within the route of Russian colonization of Siberia. Its name is derived from the word "Bulagat", literally which means sable hunters, a Buryat tribe. From 1655, mass agreement started within the vicinity; finally, a colony became built and iron mining developed. In 1658, Ivan Pokhabov, the administrator prikazchik of Balagansk, brought on an endemic and lots of Russians had been killed by using them.

Balagansk Fortress ostrog changed into built in Balagansk; the Buryats had been connected to it and paid tributes to the Russians. Buryats grew to dominate the region and on April 1, 1818, seventeen clans of the Balagansk Buryats met and adopted a memorandum to post to the Russian authorities. In their memorandum they raised six troubles and also furnished movement to be taken on each of them which related to courts, personal law, crook law, the rights and duties of the chief Taisha and heads of clans.