Career
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 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.
