A curated directory of public scholarship, writing and cultural work related to the Buryat world.
Profiles describe published work and public professional roles. Private contact details, family information and political affiliations are outside the scope of this directory.
history/Mongology, Buryats of Mongolia
Author of a key Mongolian-language historiographical work on the Buryats of Mongolia, "Mongol ulsyn buriadud"; cited in reviews, though clear official open access to the full text is not confirmed.
bibliography, cataloguing of pre-revolutionary Buryat books
cataloguing project at the National Library of Russia (NLR)
Lead of a project (2025) cataloguing 45 pre-revolutionary Buryat publications in vertical Mongolian script from the NLR collections, featuring full digitisation and historical context; as of October 2025, access is open from within Buryatia.
anthropology, Inner Asia
University of Cambridge, MIASU (emerita)
A leading Western researcher of Buryat genealogies and Inner Asia; her work on the creation and interpretation of Buryat genealogies serves as a key academic reference for the project's genealogical section.
ethno-political history of Russia and the USSR, Buryats and Kalmyks, Russian colonialism
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
A historian and anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle); his work covers the integration of Buryats and Kalmyks into the Russian state (monograph, 2001), the publication of an archival document regarding Buryats and Mongols in the early Soviet Far Eastern Krai (Acta Mongolica, 2025), and the question of Russian colonialism.
anthropology, ritual and performance of Western Buryats, shamanism
Author of the open-access monograph "Facing the Fire, Taking the Stage" on Western Buryat ritual, shamanism, public culture, and belonging—connecting ethnography with historical context.
history, Soviet modernisation in Siberia
Author of the dissertation "Being Buryat: Soviet Modernization in Siberia" regarding Soviet modernisation in Siberia based on Buryat material; bibliographically significant, though stable open full-text access is not confirmed.
history, Christianisation of the Buryats, 19th-century imperial period
Author of a 2025 article (The Russian Review) on the history of the Orthodox mission and the Christianisation of Transbaikal Buryats in the 19th century (the Dymbilov affair)—one of the clearest new English-language texts on the imperial period.
history, early 20th-century Buryat intelligentsia
Author of the classic article "The Buriat Intelligentsia" on the Buryat intelligentsia of the early 20th century—an older but still fundamental English-language source on the elites of that period.
history, early 20th-century Buryat national movement and intelligentsia
Author of an open article in the journal Sibirica regarding the early 20th-century Buryat activist/intellectual Bato-Dalai Ochirov—a source on the national movement and intelligentsia of the 1900–1920s.
history, oral memory of the Korean War, late Soviet period
Author (co-authored with Vitaly Tsytsykov) of an open article on Buryat soldiers in the Korean War and its memory—a rare free English-language source on the late Soviet period.
computational linguistics, corpus technologies
participant in the development of the Electronic Corpus of the Buryat Language (IMBT SB RAS)
Listed in a landscape report as a participant ("with the participation of... T. Arkhangelskiy") in the development of the Electronic Corpus of the Buryat Language at IMBT SB RAS, alongside M. Daniel.
history, early Soviet state-building, medical anthropology
Author of an open article in EMSCAT regarding medical and anthropological research on Buryat-Mongols during the 1920s–early 1930s—a source on early Soviet state-building and the BMAR (Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic).
prose (Ukrainian); also a specialist in spacecraft trajectory calculation
Vydavnytstvo Staroho Lva (Lviv)
A writer of Buryat origin writing in Ukrainian: born in Ulan-Ude (1977) to a family of musicians, graduated from BSU, worked as a TV journalist, and has been in the US aerospace industry since 2013. He has five bestsellers in Ukraine; "Taymnytsia storoho Lamy" (VSL, 2021, illus. Yaryna Zhuk) is an autobiographical novel about two Buddhist datsan novices and the teacher Chimitdorzhe-lama. A vivid example of contemporary Buryat culture outside Russia and a bridge to the Ukrainian-speaking audience.
computational linguistics, machine translation Buryat↔Russian
project supported by a grant from the Government of the Republic of Buryatia
Author of a neural network Russian-Buryat translator and open parallel corpora on Hugging Face; her project's data formed the basis for the inclusion of the Buryat language in Yandex Translate (from 2025).