Submitted Name
Type Settlement
Usage Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Belarusian, Chechen, Chuvash, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Kyrgyz, Norwegian, Ossetian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Tatar, Ukrainian, Yakut
Scripts Улан-Удэ(Bashkir, Belarusian, Chechen, Chuvash, Kyrgyz, Ossetian, Russian, Tatar, Yakut) Улан-Уде(Ukrainian)
[Meaning & History
From Buryat Улаан-Үдэ (Ulaan-Ude) meaning "red Uda", derived from Buryat улаан (ulaan) meaning "red" and Үдэ (Ude) referring to the Uda River. The name was originally given to reflect the Soviet Union's communist ideology. This is the name of the capital city of Buryatia, a federal subject of Russia.