Bulgun talks about the origin and history of the Tersk Kalmyks:In 1764 more than two hundred Kalmyks from the Erketenevskiy ulus were sent to the Caucasus to carry out military service. They were all Tsatan Torghuts. There they became part of the Tersk Cossacks. Whilst some these Kalmyks adopted Christianity, my clan did not, remaining faithful to the religion of our ancestors. One of my ancestors was a sergeant in the Terskiy Army. His descendants became farmers. In the Cossack army Kalmyks served mainly as guards. In 1921 the Tersk Kalmyks moved to Kalmykia. After the establishment of the Kalmyk Autonomous Oblast, all Tersk Kalmyks were settled in Bashanta (today the town of Gorodovikovsk) in Kalmykia, although they themselves wanted to settle in Ulan-Khol. The Kumsk Kalmyks settled in the village of Leninets. The Tersk Kalmyks always stayed together and helped each other, for there were only a few of them and many were related to each other.