Lyudmila says that the village of Yarta was established in 1865 near the village of Khar-Buluk. In 1943, the villagers, along with the rest of the Kalmyk population, were sent into exile. After exile, the villagers rebuilt their village in a new location which was a post station in 1911. They named it Khar-Buluk, meaning ‘a clear spring’ in Kalmyk. Near the village is a sacred place locally known as the ‘Lonely Poplar’ where grows a poplar tree planted about 150 years ago by the famous Kalmyk monk Purdash.