Uzury Explained

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.