Vernacularly, Gurans (russian: Гураны) are people of Transbaikalia of local ancestry. In modern times the term also refers to people of mixed ethnic ancestry in Transbaikalia resulted from marriages of Russians (mostly Transbaikal Siberian Cossacks) with indigenous people:

Buryats The Buryats ( bua, Буряад, Buryaad; mn, Буриад, Buriad) are a Mongolic peoples, Mongolic ethnic group native to southeastern Siberia who speak the Buryat language. They are one of the two largest indigenous groups in Siberia, the oth ...

, Evenks, Mongols, Daurs and Manchus. The term has reportedly been in used since 18th century.Гуран
''Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia'', "Этногенез и резистентность", In: ''Народы Забайкалья: возрождение и развитие'', Chita, 1997. *''Quote:'' "Забайкалье является уникальным регионом, в котором прослеживаются эти процессы �ибридизации Чётко определены временные интервалы миграционных потоков русских, которые вступали в браки с аборигенами, результатом чего явилось рождение нового этноса гуранов" Vernacularly, the term used to refer to a cossack hunter, later it was a nickname of Transbaikal cossacks. The word "gurohn" (гуро́хн) means "buck of Siberian roe deer" in Buryat language, borrowed into the local Russian vernacular as "guran". It is suggested that the term as applied to the locals is derived from hats made of guran skin with antlers.РУССКИЙ ЯЗЫК В ПОЛИЭТНИЧЕСКОМ ЗАБАЙКАЛЬЕ: ДИНАМИЧЕСКИЙ АСПЕКТ
(monograph, several authors), Kazan, 2019, , pp. 157, 158, 295, ''Quote:'' "А казаков так звали — гуранами, потому что они, когда на охоту соберутся, одеваются, как козёл, чтобы дичь не спугнуть." Some researchers, such as , consider gurans to be a new emerged ethnos, whose members have a specific culture and outlook. In modern times the term "gurans" is associated with all population of Transbaikalia of local ancestry and metonymically refers to Transbaikalia as a whole.Yulia Shchurina, Maria Vyrupaeva, Anastasia Ivanova
Regional Concepts Verbalization In Transbaikal Territory Media Discourse
In : ''Man, Society, Communication'', Proceedings of International Scientific and Practical Conference Man. Society. Communication (MSC 2020), 23–24 April 2020, Veliky Novgorod, Russian Federation

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