Zurgan Debe

The Ulus is located in the east of the Nojon area, on the left bank of the Khilok River, on the floodplain of which passes the administrative border with the Mukhorshibirsky district . The distance to the district center - the town of Gusinoozyorsk - 64 km, through the Ust-Chikoy ferry , located 28 km west of Zurgan-Debe. The connection with the right bank of Hilok is carried out through the road bridge near the village of Podlopatki , 23 km south up the river.

In 1717, by decree of Peter I, the Mongol administrative family transferred lands along the Khilok River up to Ungurkui for the faithful service of Russia. In 1764, in the area of ​​Noyhon (between the Selenga, Khilka and Chikoi), a Cossack hundred was created as part of the Tsongol regiment, after the formation of the Trans-Baikal Cossack army transferred to the jurisdiction of the Selenga stanitsa. The office of the hundreds, its office ( bur. Zurgan ), was located in the Zurgan-Debe ulus.

In December 1919, a military revolutionary headquarters was established, proclaiming Soviet power . In January 1922, the Noehonskoye volost administration of Verkhneudinsk district was formed .

In the late 1920s - early 1930s, agricultural artels and tillage associations (TOZs) were organized in Noehon. Of the 236 Noyhontsev who went to the front of the Great Patriotic War , 127 did not return home. Their names are immortalized on the monument to the dead countrymen.

In 1953, a collective farm named after the XX Party Congress was formed by uniting the farms.

In 1995, the Danzan-Nin Buddhist temple-dugan, a branch of the Mongol datsan Baldan Braybun, was erected and consecrated in the ulus.

The main population is the Buryats of the Tsongol family.

Secondary school, kindergarten, regional art and aesthetic center "Solongo", House of Culture, music school, post office, automatic telephone exchange, medical clinic, Buddhist temple-dugan, local history museum.