Gusinoye Ozero (; , ''Tamcha'') is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

('' selo'') in Selenginsky District of the

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, located on the south-western shore of Lake Gusinoye,

Selenga Highlands The Selenga Highlands () are a mountainous area in Buryatia and the southwestern end of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. The Highlands are named after the Selenga River. Protected areas in the Highlands include the Baikal Nature Reserve and the Altach ...

. Population: Gusinoye Ozero is the second most populated inhabited locality of Selenginsky District (after Gusinoozyorsk). The village was founded in 1934 during the construction of the

Ulan-Ude Ulan-Ude (; , ; , ) is the capital city of Buryatia, Russia, located about southeast of Lake Baikal on the Uda River, Buryatia, Uda River at its confluence with the Selenga River, Selenga. According to the Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census, 43 ...

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Naushki Naushki (; , ''Naashkhi'') is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Kyakhtinsky District of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located near the border with Mongolia, from the town of Kyakhta. As of the 2010 Census, its population w ...

railway. It was granted

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status on June 26, 1941, but demoted back to rural locality on November 22, 2004, due to closing of all industrial enterprises. It is home of the

Tamchinsky datsan The Tamchinsky datsan (, ''Tamchyn Dasan''), also called the Tamchinskii datsan or Gusinoozyorsk Datsan, is a Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhist monastery founded in the mid-18th century in the village of Gusinoye Ozero (rural locality), Gusinoye Ozero, l ...

, a

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monastery "founded in the mid-18th century." In 1809, the monastery became "the center of Buddhism in eastern

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". The temple, which was ransacked in the 1930s, was being restored as of 2013 "as part of the revival of the Buddhist cultural and spiritual legacy in Buriatiia."

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Rural localities in Selenginsky District {{Selenginsky-geo-stub