Background
ZHAMTSARANO, Tsyben was born on April 26, 1881.
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ZHAMTSARANO, Tsyben was born on April 26, 1881.
1901 graduate Irkutsk Teachers’Training Seminary. 1902 attended lectures at Saint St. Petersburg University.
1901 teacher at a parish school. 1903-1906 commissioned by Academy of Sciences to collect ethnographical and linguistic material in Yakutsk Province and Transbaikal. Some of this material was published by the Academy of Sciences in several parts of “Obraztsy narodnoy slovcstnosti mongol’skikh plemyon” (Samples of the Mogolian Tribes’ Folk Literature).
1906 founded a union called the “Banner of the Buryat People” which united some 60 teachers at Buryat schools in Yakutsk Province. Went underground; January 1907 - summer 1908 lectured on Mongolian language at Saint St. Petersburg University. 1918 at 3rd Congress of the Peasants, Workers, Kazaks and Buryats of Transbaikal Oblast, elected member, Transbaikal Oblast Executive Committee of Soviets.
After the congress appointed Commissar of Nationality Affairs. From 1920 active in Mongolian people’s revol movement. 1921 appointed Assistant Minister of Internal Affairs, Mongolian People's Republic.
Upon his initiative, the Mongolian Minister of Foreign Affairs opened its first Soviet school. Published first Mongolian newspaper “Capital Gazette” and the journal “New Mirror”. 1932-1937 worked at Institute of Oriental Studies, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences, Leningrad.
Translated into Mongolian works of Lev Tolstoy, Jack London, Jules Verne, et cetera 1926 published a textbook on Mongolian geography. 1937 arrested by State Security organs.