The Buzava or Buzava Kalmyks are the ethnic
Kalmyk people
The Kalmyks ( Kalmyk: Хальмгуд, ''Xaľmgud'', Mongolian: Халимагууд, ''Halimaguud''; russian: Калмыки, translit=Kalmyki, archaically anglicised as ''Calmucks'') are a Mongolic ethnic group living mainly in Russia, w ...
centered in the western
Republic of Kalmykia, in the present day
Southern Federal District of Russia.
In 1699 group of the
Dörbets of
Oirat, a Choros clan within the
Oirat tribe, migrated from the
Buddhist Kalmyk people in the
Volga River area to join the
Don Cossacks
Don Cossacks (russian: Донские казаки, Donskie kazaki) or Donians (russian: донцы, dontsy) are Cossacks who settled along the middle and lower Don. Historically, they lived within the former Don Cossack Host (russian: До ...
people. They eventually became called the Buzava Kalmyks.
They resettled with the Don Cossacks along the middle and lower
Don River in Kalmykia.
Sources
* Wixman. ''The Peoples of the USSR''. p. 34
{{Mongol ethnic groups, state=expanded
Ethnic groups in Russia
Kalmyk people
Oirats
Kalmykia