 It was the location of the 1st Argun Regiment and 1st Transbaikal Cossack Battery of the 1st Separate Transbaikal Cossack Brigade of the Transbaikal Cossack Host until the Russian Civil War.Dauriya is the location of a station on the Trans-Baikal Railway, and is southwest of Zabaykalsk, the nearest inhabited location.According to the Russian Census of 2010, Dauriya had 3,850 inhabitants.