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  • Ulan Ude
    Ulan Ude
    noun
    a city in and the capital of the Republic of Buryatia, in the southeastern part of the Russian Federation in Asia, on the Selenga River.
  • Ulan-Ude
    Ulan-Ude
    noun
    an industrial city in SE Russia, capital of the Buryat Republic: an important rail junction. Pop: 361 000 (2005 est)

Ulan Ude

American  
[oo-lahn oo-de] / uˈlɑn uˈdɛ /

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of the Republic of Buryatia, in the southeastern part of the Russian Federation in Asia, on the Selenga River.


Ulan-Ude British  
/ ʊˈlɑːnʊˈdɛ /

noun

  1. Former name (until 1934): Verkhne-Udinsk. an industrial city in SE Russia, capital of the Buryat Republic: an important rail junction. Pop: 361 000 (2005 est)

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Better yet, switch at Ulan Ude to the Trans-Mongolian Railway, which extends through the capital of Ulaanbaatar and into the Gobi Desert, ideal for fossil hunting and camel riding, before arriving in Beijing.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

The most prominent victim was Husky, the stage name for Dmitry Kuznetsov, from Ulan Ude, a rapper whose dark and dexterous lyrics skewer life in Russia outside of Moscow’s Garden Ring.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2018

In Russia’s Ulan-Ude, high sign-on bonuses and so-called “coffin money”—the payout benefits for fallen soldiers—are fueling an economic boom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Ulan-Ude has a population of almost half a million and hardly a month goes by without news of somebody being bitten by a stray dog.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2024

We agreed to meet the next day at the Southern Cemetery, a 40-minute drive from Ulan-Ude, in a pine forest.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2023

“The story about the funeral in Ulan-Ude was read about 80,000 times,” Mutinova said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2022

"It hurts me that the state only remembered him after he was dead," Semyonova, a professional musician and activist in Ulan-Ude, told Reuters, recounting the call-up for her brother.

From Reuters ● Sep. 23, 2022

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