TheBuzava orBuzava Kalmyks are the ethnicKalmyk people centered in the westernRepublic of Kalmykia, in the present daySouthern Federal District of Russia.
In 1699, a group of theDörbets ofOirat, a Choros clan within theOirat tribe, migrated from theBuddhist Kalmyk people in theVolga River area to join theDon Cossacks people.[1] They eventually came to be called the Buzava Kalmyks, which some scholars posit comes from a combination of the Kalmyk wordsbu (rifle) andzava (showed), to mean roughly 'those who showed rifles.'[2]
They resettled with the Don Cossacks along the middle and lowerDon River in Kalmykia.
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