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Wikipedia: Kalmyk people or Kalmyks (Kalmyk: Хальмгуд; "Kalmyk" is alternatively translated as "Kalmuck," "Kalmuk," or "Kalmyki") is the name given to Oirats (western Mongolic people) in Russia (in China and Mongolia, they're still known as Oirats), whose descendants migrated from Dzhungaria in the seventeenth century. Today they form a majority in the autonomous Republic of Kalmykia on the western shore of the Caspian Sea. Through emigration, small Kalmyk communities have been established in the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic.
![[The Khoshutovsky Khurul was built by Prince Tyuman of the Khoshut tribe to honor the participation of Kalmyk...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Khoshotovsky_Khurul_1812_s.jpg "The Khoshutovsky Khurul was built by Prince Tyuman of the Khoshut tribe to honor the participation of Kalmyk...")
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![[An image of an early 20th century Oirat caravan, taken in either China or Mongolia, traveling on horseback,...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Oirat_Caravan_s.jpg "An image of an early 20th century Oirat caravan, taken in either China or Mongolia, traveling on horseback,...")
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![[The Zunghar and Kalmyk states]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Kalmykia_1720_s.jpg "The Zunghar and Kalmyk states")
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![[After the 1840s, religious services were conducted inside buildings.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Kalmyk_Lamas_Praying_s.jpg "After the 1840s, religious services were conducted inside buildings.")
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![[A drawing of the interior of a Torghut Mobile Monastery, 1776.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Torghut_Temple_Tent_s.jpg "A drawing of the interior of a Torghut Mobile Monastery, 1776.")
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![[An image of a wooden Kalmyk khurul that once stood at the Tsagan Aman settlement near Astrakhan]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Kalmyk_Khurul_Tsagan_Aman_s.jpg "An image of a wooden Kalmyk khurul that once stood at the Tsagan Aman settlement near Astrakhan")
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![[This is an example of a mobile khurul that was used by Tibetan Buddhists in Siberia at the start of the 20th...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Mobile_Khurul_s.jpg "This is an example of a mobile khurul that was used by Tibetan Buddhists in Siberia at the start of the 20th...")
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