Official Name: | Uzury |
Native Name: | Узуры |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Russia |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Russia |
Subdivision Type1: | Federal subject |
Subdivision Name1: | Irkutsk Region |
Subdivision Type2: | Administrative district |
Subdivision Name2: | Olkhonsky District |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipal unit |
Subdivision Name3: | Khuzhirskiy |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Total: | 9 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank1: | Russians, Buryats |
Timezone: | IRKT |
Utc Offset: | +08 |
Coordinates: | 53.3233°N 107.7408°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 666137 |
Blank Name: | Dialing code |
Blank Info: | +7 39558 |
Uzury (from Buriat: γзγγр - tip, top, edge) is a village in the Olkhonsky District of Irkutsk region of Russia, a part of the Khuzhirskiy municipal unit. Located in the Bay Haga-Yaman of Lake Baikal at the Eastern shore of Olkhon Island in 30 km northeast from the municipal unit centre — village Khuzhir.
A permanent meteorological station and a laboratory of the Siberian Institute of the Earth's crust are operating in the village.Population: consists mainly of the staff of meteorological station.
The Bay Haga-Yaman is known for its archaeological sites of the Neolithic period (4th—2nd millennia BC) and Late Iron Age (5th—10th century AD). In a cave near the village a Neolithic burial was found in 1956. The archaeological findings include fragments of pottery, items made of bone, arrowheads and an axe.