Tuva is an autonomous republic in southern Siberia located between Russia and Mongolia. The Tuvan language is Turkic and written with a modified Cyrillic alphabet, containing many loan words from Mongolian. Tuvans are known for their traditions of throat singing, wrestling, and folklore. The landscape contains the Eurasian lynx, Altai snowcock, and snow leopard. Historically Tuva was controlled by Mongols and Manchus before becoming part of the Soviet Union in 1944 and now the Russian Federation. The economy develops industries like coal mining and food processing.

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The Tuvan language is Turkic.
It contains many loan-words
from Mongolian.
Tuvan is written with a modified
Cyrillic alphabet.

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Tuvans raise horses.
They are famous for Tuvan throat singing.
Tuvan wrestling is called Khuresh,
it is a very popular sport.
The Tuvan people have a rich tradition of orally transmitted folklore, including many
genres, ranging from very brief riddles and aphorisms, to tongue twisters, magical
tales, hero tales, scary stories, and epics that would take many hours to recite.

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TUVA The Eurasian
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lynx is the
biggest of
the lynxes. It
is native to
the Siberian
region
which
contains The Altai Snowcock is a
Tuva. pheasant common in
Tuva.
The Siberian
Roe Deer, in
addition to
Mongolia
and
Kazakhstan,
is found in
the Tian
Shan
mountain
The Snow Leopard is native to Tuva. region of
Tuva.

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Tuva is in the Ubsunur Hollow,
an environmentally protected area.
It is between Siberian Russia and Mongolia.
It is one of the most remote places on Earth.
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The historic region of Tannu
Uriankhai, of which Tuva is a
part, was controlled by the
Mongols from 1207 to 1757,
when it was brought under
Manchu rule until 1911.
During the 1911 The Soviet Union annexed Tuva
revolution in China, tsarist outright in 1944, with the approval of
Russia formed a separatist Tuva's Little Khural (parliament).
movement among the Tuvans. The exact circumstances surrounding
Tannu-Tuva's incorporation into the
Tuva became nominally USSR in 1944 remain obscure.
independent as the Urjanchai
Republic before being brought In February 1990, the Tuvan
under Russian protectorate as Democratic Movement was
Uryankhay Kray under Tsar founded by Kaadyr-ool Bicheldei, a
Nicholas II on 17 April 1914. philologist at Kyzyl University.

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Tuva has a developing
Chadan-ugol strip mining industry at
places like Chadan-ugol
where coal, cobalt, gold, and
other minerals are extracted.
Food processing, timber,
and metal working industries
are also well-developed. Most
of the industrial production is
concentrated in the capital
Kyzyl.

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Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics
Service) (2011). "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 (2010 All-
Russian Population Census, vol. 1)" (in Russian). Всероссийская перепись
населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census). Federal State Statistics
Service. Retrieved July 05, 2012.
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Tuva is fascinating...
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Tuvans are closely related ethnically and
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linguistically to the Khakas to their north and To learn more about Tuva,
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