Buryatia in Russia: transformations in economy of Buryats in the period of the 17th- 19th centuries

In the article the process of transformation in the economy of Buryats - cattle-breeders and nomads of dry steppes of Eurasia caused by the joining Buryatia to Russia is studied within the long diachronic period. To create the objective view of the whole number of economic innovations, first the economy of Buryats in pre-Russian period has been studied, which is known by the lack of concrete evidences. The complex of various sources helped to reconstruct in the artiсle the general state of economy, sufficient for comparative analysis of two stages of economic development of people before the joining and after it, beginning from the 17th till the end of the 19th centuries.