Tsogto Badmazhapov

Tsogto Badmazhapov
Цогто Бадмажапов
Born	1879 Glagolcheskaya, Troitskosavsk, Russian Empire (now Kyakhta, Republic of Buryatia, Russia)
Died	15 December 1937 Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast, RSFSR. 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 (Russian: Цогто Гармаевич Бадмажапов; 1879-1937) was a Russian translator, Mongolist, and discoverer of the city of Khara-Khoto.

Biography

An ethnic Buryat, he was a native of Troitskosavsk in the Zabaykalskoy Oblast of 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.

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

References

• 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)