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Byambyn Rinchen

Died in 1977

Byambyn Rinchen was born on 21 November 1905 near Kyakhta, on the Russian-Mongolian border. He studied Oriental languages in Leningrad in the mid-twenties and returned home in 1927. Arrested in 1937 during the purges, he spent nearly five years in prison before being released in 1942. A linguist, folklorist and historian as much as a writer, he received the State Prize in 1946 for a film script, defended a doctorate before the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1956, and died on 4 March 1977.

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