TO THE PROBLEM OF ETHNOGENESIS OF THE KHORI

The article, written on the basis of the field expedition material collect-ed in the Qinghai province in the People’s Chinese Republic, briefly outlines the results of the study of the ethnogenesis of the Buryat tribal community of the Khori. It has been found out that the original homeland of the ethnic group called Nayan Navaa was located in Tsaidam on the western side of Lake Ku-ku-nor near Lake Tsagaan. At the beginning of the VI century, as a result of the interaction of the Khori with the Turkic-speaking Sayan Altai clans, the Khori tribe was formed. Due to the fact that there is a hypothesis about the arrival of the Khori at the Baikal from the north of Iraq, where they presumed-ly lived in the area of Ninawa, the article reveals the history of this toponym. The analysis of the material does not confirm the correctness of the Iraq ver-sion of the ethnogenesis of the Khori.