Official Name: | Kurumkan |
Native Name: | Курумкан |
Settlement Type: | Settlement |
Pushpin Map: | Russia Buryatia#Russia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Russia |
Subdivision Name1: | Republic of Buryatia |
Subdivision Name3: | Kurumkansky District |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Utc Offset1: | +8:00 |
Coordinates: | 54.3167°N 129°W[1] |
Kurumkan (ru|Курумка́н; Buryat and mn|Хурамхаан, Khuramkhaan) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Kurumkansky District of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located 413km (257miles) from Ulan-Ude. Population:
The name "Kurumkan" comes from the Evenk language and means a stone river.
Kurumkan is located by the Barguzin River, with the Barguzin Range rising to the west.[2]
There is a bus that runs twice a day between Ulan-Ude and Kurumkan.