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, in the present day

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of Russia. In 1699 group of the Dörbets of Oirat, a Choros clan within the Oirat tribe, migrated from the

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Kalmyk people in the

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area to join the Don Cossacks people. They eventually became called the Buzava Kalmyks. They resettled with the Don Cossacks along the middle and lower

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in Kalmykia.

Sources

* Wixman. ''The Peoples of the USSR''. p. 34 {{Mongol ethnic groups, state=expanded Ethnic groups in Russia Kalmyk people Oirats Kalmykia