улу́с

rare #52090

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1.
ulus, districtadministration
Он роди́лся в се́верном улу́се Яку́тии.
He was born in a northern ulus of Yakutia.
Administrative-territorial unit in the north and east of tsarist Russia and in present-day Yakutia, Buryatia and Kalmykia.
2.
village, settlement, hamlet
Мы зае́хали в небольшо́й буря́тский улу́с.
We stopped by a small Buryat village.
Of a village in Siberia or Central Asia.
3.
(rare) clan, tribal domainhistory
Улу́с Джучи распа́лся на не́сколько ханств.
The ulus of Jochi broke up into several khanates.
In feudal Central and Inner Asia and Siberia.

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