Tsogto Badmazhapov

Tsogto Garmayevich Badmazhapov
Цогто Гармаевич Бадмажапов
Born	1879 Glagolcheskaya, Troitskosavsk okrug, Zabaykalskoy oblast, Russian Empire
Died	15 December 1937 Novosibirsk; Novosibirsk Oblast, USSR
Occupation(s)	Explorer, Mongolist, diplomat, translator, noncomissioned officer
Years active	Russia 1899-1914, Mongolia 1914-1931
Awards	Lesser silver medal of the Russian Geographical Society

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

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)