Tsyben Zhamtsarano

Tsyben Zhamtsaranovich Zhamtsarano[a] (Russian: Цыбен Жамцаранович Жамцарано; 26 April 1881 – 14 April/May 1942), also known as Jamsrangiin Tseveen (Mongolian: Жамсрангийн Цэвээн), was a Buryat scholar and folklorist.

Tsyben Zhamtsaranovich Zhamtsarano (Jamsrangiin Tseveen) was born on 26 April 1881 to an Aga Khori Buryat family in Khoito-Aga, Transbaikal Oblast, Russian Empire, the son of the zaisang (headman) of the Sharaid clan.

[1][2] After the 1911 revolution in Outer Mongolia, Zhamtsarano worked concurrently in the Russian consulate in the capital Niislel Khüree (today Ulaanbaatar) and in the Bogd Khan government's Foreign Ministry.

As an educational advisor, he founded the first junior school in the capital in March 1912, created a movable-type press for the Mongolian script, and with Russian sponsorship published a monthly journal, Shine Toli ("New Mirror").

The journal published documents and treaties, discussions of society, and translations of works such as French author Léon Cahun's historical novel of the Mongol Empire, La bannière bleue ("Blue Banner").

After the October Revolution and outbreak of the Russian Civil War, in December 1917 he was elected chairman of the Buryat National Committee (Burnatskom), which governed the briefly independent State of Buryat-Mongolia.

He was sentenced to five years' imprisonment by the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court in Moscow on 19 February 1940, and died in the labor camp at Sol-Iletsk on 14 April (or May) 1942.