''Buryad Unen'' ( bxr, Буряад үнэн, , "The Buryat Truth") is the main newspaper in the

Buryat language Buryat, or Buriat (; Buryat Cyrillic: , , ), known in foreign sources as the Bargu-Buryat dialect of Mongolian, and in pre-1956 Soviet sources as Buryat-Mongolian,In China, the Buryat language is classified as the Bargu-Buryat dialect of the Mon ...

, founded in December 1921 and originally published in the top-down

Mongolian script The classical or traditional Mongolian script, also known as the , was the first writing system created specifically for the Mongolian language, and was the most widespread until the introduction of Cyrillic script, Cyrillic in 1946. It is trad ...

before switching to Latin script in 1931-1938 and eventually

Cyrillic script The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking cou ...

from 1939. It was founded as (Буряад-Монголиин үнэн, , ''Buryat-Mongol Truth'') in 1921 in Chita,

Buryat-Mongol ASSR The Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (russian: Бурятская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика; bua, Буряадай Автономито Совет Социали ...

, within

Russian SFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

. Now it published in

Ulan-Ude Ulan-Ude (; bua, Улаан-Үдэ, , ; russian: Улан-Удэ, p=ʊˈlan ʊˈdɛ; mn, Улаан-Үд, , ) is the capital city of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located about southeast of Lake Baikal on the Uda River at its confluence wi ...

, as Chita was carved out of the

. In 1958, Buryat-Mongol ASSR removed the "-Mongol" from its official name, and the name of this newspaper followed the change. In the 1970s, it was published six times a week, with a circulation of approximately 8500.

History of the newspaper

.The paper was originally published in Chita. In 1923, the publication of the paper moved to Ulan-Ude. It was printed in the vertical Mongolian script, which, due to its universality, leveled the dialect differences of the Buryats and allowed carriers of different dialects to freely understand each other, which made it impossible to oppose Buryat dialects to each other.Short history of newspaper (in Russian language)
/ref> From 1931–1938, the newspaper Buryad-Mongolian Unen was printed in

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. For the first time, the Latin alphabet clearly showed the Buryat dialectal differences, but the Buryat language, written in Latin, still continued to maintain its Mongolian basis of the language: vocabulary, grammatical rules, style, etc. In 1939, Buriiad-Mongol ynen began to be printed in Cyrillic. The basis of the new

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took the spoken form in which the newspaper was printed in the subsequent period. In 1958, the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR was renamed the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, in connection with which the newspaper Buryad-Mongoloy Unen was renamed Buryad Unen. Starting in 2013, the company began uploading various news segments to its

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channel. In 2015, the newspaper's parent company, the Buryat Yenen Information Agency, registered the company with the

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References

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