Tunka is a village

Types of settlements in Russia

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 (selo) in Tunkinsky District

Tunkinsky District

Tunkinsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality of Kyren. District's population: 24,173 ; Population of Kyren accounts for 22.5% of the...

 of the Buryat Republic, Russia

Russia

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, located east of Baikal

Baikal

Baykal commonly refers to Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, Russia.Baykal or Baikal may also refer to:-Russia:*Baykal, Irkutsk Oblast, an urban-type settlement*Baykal, Aurgazinsky District, Republic of Bashkortostan, a village...

 in the Tunka Valley.

In the 19th century, it served as a settlement to where a large number of political prisoners were forcibly resettled. Among them was a group of all Catholic priests arrested during the 1863 January Uprising

January Uprising

The January Uprising was an uprising in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against the Russian Empire...

 against tsarist Russia, 145 altogether. Among other notable political prisoners kept there were Bronisław Szwarce and Józef Piłsudskihttp://nowe-panstwo.pl/11_2002_miesiecznik/11_2002_reportaz.htm. Wilfrid Michael Voynich

Wilfrid Michael Voynich

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was held there from late December 1887 to late June 1889.