Batourino, Buryatia – Wikipedia

Batourino (in Russian: Baturino) is a village in the Nesterovo rural settlement in the Baikalian Raion, Buryatia, Russia. Its population was 49 inhabitants at the 2021 census.

The village of Baturino is located in Buryatia, a republic of Russia located in Transbaikalia, a region of eastern Siberia east of Lake Baikal. It is part of the Far Eastern Federal District. Locality of the Baikalian district, a district of the republic, it is located in the rural settlement of Nesterovo, a municipality of the district with Nesterovo as its capital^[[1],[[2]. Batourino lies in the valley of the Itantsa River, a sub-tributary of Baikal^[[3].

The time zone of the village is MSK+5 (Irkutsk time). The time difference applied to Coordinated Universal Time is +08:00^[[4].

The name of the village probably comes from a family, the Batourines, who appear in the families living there in the XIX^e century^[[5].

The village is first mentioned in a description of the Intantsa fort and its valley in Gerhard Friedrich Müller’s Great Northern Expedition of 1733-1746. Batourino then belongs to the ostrog of Itantsa^[[6].

A wooden church dedicated to the Presentation of the Lord was built in 1777. In 1791, the parish of Batourino had 12 hamlets and 148 households. The village was integrated into the volost of Itantsa in 1800^[[5].

Between 1833 and 1836 lived in Baturino Ivan Fyodorovich Chimkov, a decabrist, who died in the village^[[7].

At the beginning of XX^e century, the village was prosperous, with a post office, a rest stop, inns and stores. Several families of Jewish merchants also lived there, but left the region in 1919^[[8].

Censuses^{[[9]and population estimates[[5]},

The Church of the Presentation of the Lord in Batourino. The village has the church of the Presentation of the Lord, built between 1813 and 1836 thanks to donations from parishioners and patrons. Its architecture is typical of the churches of Transbaikalia of the time. It is composed of a lower church, completed in September 1829, and an upper church, finished in August 1836. It is built according to a standard plan, with an almost total absence of the opulence of the Siberian Baroque. However, several characteristics of the style are found in the building, with the half-domes, the drums and the central spire. It was closed on May 28, 1935 by the Soviet authorities, and fell into disrepair. The church is listed as a cultural heritage object of Russia of local significance under theⁿ o^[[10]031410049880005 in 1971, then becomes of regional importance in 2015 . Restoration work was carried out in 1999, and theNovember 28, 1999^[[11]the church is consecrated

. The8 mars 2000^[[11]a monastery was founded by Bishop Eustace of Chita around the church

.^[[11]The grave of Ivan Chimkov, which is located in the monastery^[[7]is classified as a cultural heritage object of Russia of federal significance

• ) (ru) Center for protection and use historical and cultural monuments of the Republic of Buryatia, [« Essai historique sur un objet patrimonial culturel d’importance régionale «.Eglise de la Présentation-au-Seigneur, de 1815 ». »]Historical information about the cultural heritage site of regional significance “Sretenskaya Church, 1815.” Ulan-Ude,‎ 2023

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