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Tsogto Badmazhapov

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Tsogto Badmazhapov
Цогто Бадмажапов
Born1879
Died15 December 1937
Occupation(s)Explorer, Mongolist, diplomat, translator, noncomissioned officer
Years active Russia (1899-1914)
 Mongolia (1914-1931)
AwardsLesser 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.

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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.

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