Gunsyn Tsydenova
Гунсын Цыденова
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Buryat-Mongol ASSR
In office
12 April 1941 – 25 March 1947
Preceded byGombo Belgaev
Succeeded byDorji Tsyrempilon
Personal details
BornMay 1909 (1909-05)
Ust-Orot, Transbaikal Oblast, Russian Empire
Died1994 (aged 84–85)
Ulan-Ude, Buryatia, Russia
Political partyAUCP(b)

Gunsyn Ayusheevna Tsydenova (Russian: Гунсын Аюшеевна Цыденова; May 1909 – 1994) was a Soviet veterinarian and politician who served as the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic from 1941 until 1947, leading the ASSR through World War II. Tsydenova also served a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1937 until 1954.

Biography

Gunsen Ayusheevna Tsydenova was born in May 1909 in the village of Ust-Orot, then part of the Transbaikal Oblast of the Russian Empire. An ethnic Buryat, Tsydenova worked with her grandmother as a household servant until 1929, when she joined an agricultural artel. In 1931, Tsydenova joined the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), and began rising through the party ranks in the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. On the recommendation of the Khorinsky District party committee, she began studying at the Kyakhta Soviet Party School in 1933. After graduating the following year, she was elected chairman of the collective farm "Stalin's Way" in the Khorinsky District. Tsydenova also became a member of the somon of Ashanginsky, serving as chairman from 1935 until 1937. From September 1938 until April 1941, Tsydenova attended the agricultural college in Ulan-Ude.[1][2]

In 1937, Tsydenova was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.[1][3] She served in the first, second, and third convocations of the Supreme Soviet, leaving office in 1954.[4][5][6] In 1937 and 1938, she became an instructor in the AUCP(b) apparatus of the Khorinsky District and the Buryat-Mongol ASSR.[7] In 1939, she was a named a people's assessor of the Supreme Court of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.[8] On 12 April 1941, Tsydenova was elected chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Buryat-Mongol ASSR. In this position, Tsydenova led Buryatia through World War II. Tsydenova was responsible for the rationing of food and supplies and traveled to rural areas, where she "informed and talked about front-line affairs, and provided constant assistance in organizing the harvest and the delivery of agricultural products to the state". Tsydenova held the office of chairman until 25 March 1947.[2][9]

Tsydenova attended the Buryat Agricultural Institute and the Ulan-Ude Veterinary Institute after the war, graduating with a veterinary diploma and working in the clinic. From 1953 until 1954, Tsydenova was the chairman of the collective farm "F. Engels". She later held senior veterinary roles in Chesan and Verkhnekodunsky until her retirement in 1960.[1][2]

Tsydenova died in Ulan-Ude in 1994. She was a recipient of the Order of the Badge of Honor and had been named "Honored Veterinarian of the Buryat ASSR". Following her death, the Republic of Buryatia renamed a street in the village of Kizhinga after Tsydenova and installed a memorial plaque at her home in Ulan-Ude.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Цыденова Гунсын Аюшеевна" [Tsydenova Gunsyn Ayusheevna]. selorodnoe.ru (in Russian). January 12, 2012. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Цыденова Гунсын Аюшеевна" [Tsydenova Gunsyn Ayusheevna]. Handbook of the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898 - 1991 (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-01-22.
  3. ↑ Basaev, Gennady Dorzhievich (1998). ПОЛИТИЧЕСКАЯ ИСТОРИЯ РЕСПУБЛИКИ БУРЯТИЯ В 20-30-е ГОДЫ И РОЛЬ В НЕЙ М.Н.ЕРБАНОВА [Political History of the Republic of Buryatia in the 20-30s and the role of M.N. Erbanova in it] (PDF) (in Russian). Irkutsk: Buryat State University. p. 29. Retrieved January 22, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Депутаты Верховного Совета СССР I-го созыва 1937 - 1946" [Deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 1st convocation 1937 - 1946]. Handbook of the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898 - 1991 (in Russian). Archived from the original on April 7, 2022. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
  5. ↑ "Депутаты Верховного Совета СССР II созыва 1946 - 1950" [Deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR II convocation 1946 - 1950]. Handbook of the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898 - 1991 (in Russian). Archived from the original on July 14, 2020. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
  6. ↑ "Депутаты Верховного Совета СССР III-го созыва 1950 - 1954" [Deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR III convocation 1950 - 1954]. Handbook of the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898 - 1991 (in Russian). Archived from the original on March 21, 2022. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
  7. ↑ "Председатель Президиума Верховного Совета Бурят-Монгольской АССР (апрель 1941 – март 1947)" [Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (April 1941 - March 1947)]. People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia (in Russian). 2021-10-27. Archived from the original on November 30, 2021. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
  8. ↑ "ОБ ИЗБРАНИИ ВЕРХОВНОГО СУДА РОССИИСКОИ СОВЕТСКОИ ФЕДЕРАТИВНОИ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ" [On the Election of the Supreme Court of the Russian and Soviet Federal Socialist Republic] (PDF). Red North (in Russian). August 6, 1939. p. 2. Retrieved January 22, 2023.
  9. ↑ Protasov, Evgeny (May 22, 2020). "Бурятия в годы войны" [Buryatia during the war]. Buryad Unen (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-01-22.

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