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Tsogto Garmayevich Badmazhapov

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Name
  
Tsogto Badmazhapov


Native name
  
TSogto Garmaevich Badmazhapov

Born
  
1879
Glagolcheskaya, Troitskosavsk okrug, Zabaykalskoy oblast, Russian Empire

Occupation
  
Explorer, Mongolist, diplomat, translator, noncomissioned officer

Years active
  
Russia 1899-1914,  Mongolia 1914-1931

Awards
  
Lesser silver medal of the Russian Geographical Society

Died
  
December 15, 1937, Novosibirsk, Russia

Tsogto Garmayevich Badmazhapov (1879-1937) was a translator, Mongolist, and discoverer of the city of Khara-Khoto.

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Biography

He was a Buryat, native of Troitskosavsk okrug, Zabaykalskoy oblast in the Russian Empire from the Cossack estate of Kyakhta. In his capacity as a translator and explorer with the rank of senior warden (uryadnik) he participated in the Mongolo-Kamskoy Expedition of Pyotr Kozlov (1899-1901). He worked for a trading company based at Kyakhta, "Sobennikov and Molchanov Brothers" under Bazar Baradin. He was executed in 1937 on charges of participating in a counter-revolutionary conspiracy against the Mongolian People's Republic.

Badmazhanov's home in Urga is now the Historical Museum of Ulan-Bator.

  • Цокто Бадмажапов — первооткрыватель "Мертвого города «Хара-Хото». (Tsokto Badmazhapov: Discoverer of the "Lost City" of Khara-Khoto).
  • Персоналии — Наука и образование — Бадмажапов Ц. Г. (People: Academia & Education: Badmazhapov, Ts.G.
  • Люди и Судьбы (People and Events)

    • References

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