The exercise was initially called Darkhan (which means "builder" in Mongolian), but in 2011, it was renamed Selenga after a river that begins in Mongolia, flows through Russia’s Buryatia Region ...

In 2011, the maneuvers were dubbed Selenga, which is the name of the river that originates on the territory of Mongolia, flows through the Republic of Buryatia in East Siberia and gets into Lake ...