Horo, Sakha Republic

Horo ( _ru. Хоро) - a village in Verchneviljijsky ( _ru. Верхневилюйский) ulus (area) of Republic Sakha (Yakutia). It is located on the left coast of the rivers Vilyuis, in 100 km to northwest from the city of Viljujsk. Up to 2003 the official name of the village by its post office was Bulgunnjachtach ( _ru. Булгунняхтах).

History

Under the legend the settlement was based with tribes horo (presumably mongol the tribes) rescueed oppressions of Yakuts from pool of Lena.

For the first time in written sources it is mentioned in connection with connection of Yakutia to Russian empire. In 1634 on a place of a confluence of small river Tjuken in the river Vilyui Russian (Mangazejan) cossacks under leadership of Voin Shahov have put Fortress ( _ru. зимовье) which some decades served as an administrative centre, before its transferring to district Yolyonnyoh on 45 km below on current of Vilyui and the basis of jail Olensk (according to some information approximately in 1773). This jail nowadays is considered the ancestor of the modern city of Vilyuysk.