Transformational processes in the housing and settlement complex of Kudara Buryats in the second half of the XIX – beginning of XX century

Subject of research are the changes that occurred in the second half of the XIX – beginning of XX century in the settlements and dwellings of Kudara Buryats, one of the ethnoterritorial groups of the Buryat people. Sources for the study served as archival and literary information, first of all, the materials of Fund «Kudarinskaya stepnaya duma» of National archive of the Republic of Buryatia, chronologically attributable to the second half of the XIX century. The article shows that the development of housing and settlement complex of Kudara Buryats affected by the earthquake 1862, which led to the disappearance of part of the regions and the noticeable migration of the population. In the housing and settlement complex of this group Buryats trends, in the time also characteristic for some ethnoterritorial groups of the Buryat people of the Baikal region and the Western Trans-Baikal. Common was the fact that after reaching a certain number of large regions was the resettlement of parts of the population, which formed subsidiaries settlements. During the second half of XIX – beginning of XX century in the structure of settlements of Kudara Buryats is dominated by small settlements. The author argues that the growth in the number of log yurt was due to the need of solving the housing problem after the earthquake, at the same time, construction of the houses has pushed the mass Christianization of the Kudara Buryats. New phenomena in the development of the settlements were: the emergence of the zaimks; the use of the street layout in the newly formed regions; increase in the number of buildings of religious and public buildings.