Tsogto Garmayevich Badmazhapov
Tsogto Garmayevich Badmazhapov (1879-1937) was a translator, Mongolist, and discoverer of the city of Khara-Khoto.
Tsogto Garmayevich Badmazhapov | |
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Цогто Гармаевич Бадмажапов | |
| Born | 1879 |
| Died | 15 December 1937 |
| Occupation | Explorer, Mongolist, diplomat, translator, noncomissioned officer |
| Years active |  Russia 1899-1914,  Mongolia 1914-1931 |
| Awards | Lesser silver medal of the Russian Geographical Society |
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.
Links
- 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)
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