Tunka

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Tunka (Russian: Тунка) is a village (selo) in Tunkinsky District of the Buryat Republic, Russia, located east of Baikal in the Tunka Valley.

In the 19th century, it served as a settlement to where a large number of political prisoners were forcibly resettled. Among them was a group of all Catholic priests arrested during the 1863 January Uprising against tsarist Russia, 145 altogether. Among other notable political prisoners kept there were Bronisław Szwarce and Józef Piłsudski[1].


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