Tsogto Badmazhapov

Tsogto Garmayevich Badmazhapov was a Russian translator, Mongolist, and discoverer of the city of Khara-Khoto.

Biography

An ethnic Buryat, he was a native of Troitskosavsk district in the Transbaikal Oblast of the Russian Empire. In his capacity as a translator and explorer with the rank of senior warden he participated in the Mongolo-Kamskoy Expedition of Pyotr Kozlov. 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.