Bimba Dorzhievich Tsibikov belongs to the older generation of scientists-historians who laid the foundations of Soviet Buryat historical science in Buryat-Mongolia, then in Buryatia. Bimba Dorzhievich was born on November 20, 1912 in Ivolga ulus (now the district center) Orongoi volost of Verkhneudinsky uyezd, East Siberian province. B. D. Tsibikov graduated from the Leningrad Historical and Linguistic Institute (LIFLI) in 1934. He studied at the postgraduate course of the Institute of Peoples of the North in 1934-1935. (my studies were interrupted.) He worked as an employee of the Buryat-Mongolian Research Institute of Language, Literature and History under the Council of Ministers of the BMASSR. In 1938-1941 he continued his post-graduate studies at Moscow State University. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he volunteered for the militia. After returning to Buryat-Mongolia, he taught history at the Buryat-Mongolian Pedagogical Institute( BMSPI) and worked part-time at the Research Institute of Culture and Economics (BMNIIKE). His further activity took place at the Buryat Integrated Research Institute (BKNII) and the Buryat Institute of Social Sciences of the Buryat branch of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (BION BF SB of the USSR Academy of Sciences) until his retirement in 1973, after which he continued working at the IMBT SB RAS. Candidate of Historical Sciences, B. D. Tsibikov was a well-educated scientist, recognized by his colleagues in science. He died on May 6, 2006 in Ulan-Ude. In the 1920s and 1930s, when B. D. Tsibikov was receiving his historical education, Irkutsk was a center of science and higher education for Buryats and Yakuts, where a branch of the Russian Geographical Society functioned, which published many scientific works on the indigenous peoples of Eastern Siberia. Irkutsk State University had Buryat-Mongolian and Yakut departments of humanities. Major historical scholars taught there: F. A. Kudryavtsev (1899-1 ... Читать далее