Gurans (Transbaikal people)

Vernacularly, Gurans (Гураны) are people of Transbaikalia of local ancestry. In modern times the term also refers to people of mixed ethnic ancestry in Transbaikalia resulted from marriages of Russians (mostly Transbaikal Siberian Cossacks) with indigenous people: Buryats, Evenks, Mongols, Daurs and Manchus. The term has reportedly been in used since 18th century. Vernacularly, the term used to refer to a cossack hunter, later it was a nickname of Transbaikal cossacks.

The word "gurohn" (гуро́хн) means "buck of Siberian roe deer" in Buryat language, borrowed into the local Russian vernacular as "guran". It is suggested that the term as applied to the locals is derived from hats made of guran skin with antlers.

Some researchers, such as Namzhil Tsybikov, consider gurans to be a new emerged ethnos, whose members have a specific culture and outlook.

In modern times the term "gurans" is associated with all population of Transbaikalia of local ancestry and metonymically refers to Transbaikalia as a whole.