The first edition of the history of the city of Ulan-Ude, covering the period from the Stone Age to the present. A person can only then consider himself a citizen of his Fatherland, when he knows its origins, knows history, whatever it may be. Having arisen as a military-administrative center on the East Siberian frontier of the country, Verkhneudinsk turned into the "heart of Russian Asia." As we can see, a rich life in these places was carried out in antiquity. However, the real heyday of the city comes in connection with the accession processes in Siberia.