Gunsyn Ayusheevna Tsydenova (; May 1909 – 1994) was a

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veterinarian and politician who served as the chairman of the Presidium of the of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic from 1941 until 1947, leading the ASSR through

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. Tsydenova also served a deputy of the

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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

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. An ethnic Buryat, Tsydenova worked with her grandmother as a household servant until 1929, when she joined an agricultural

artel An artel () was any of several types of cooperative associations of workers in pre-revolutionary Russia. In the Soviet Union, the term was applied to enterprises in the Soviet Union, production cooperatives. They began centuries ago but were espe ...

. In 1931, Tsydenova joined the

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, and began rising through the party ranks in the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. On the recommendation of the

Khorinsky District Khorinsky District (; , ''Khoriin aimag'') is an administrativeResolution #431 and municipalLaw #985-III district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia. It is located in the center of the republic. The area of the di ...

party committee, she began studying at the

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Soviet Party School in 1933. After graduating the following year, she was elected chairman of the

collective farm Collective farming and communal farming are various types of "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise". There are two broad types of communal farms: agricultural cooperatives, in which member-o ...

"Stalin's Way" in the Khorinsky District. Tsydenova also became a member of the somon of , serving as chairman from 1935 until 1937. From September 1938 until April 1941, Tsydenova attended the agricultural college in

Ulan-Ude Ulan-Ude (; , ; , ) is the capital city of Buryatia, Russia, located about southeast of Lake Baikal on the Uda River, Buryatia, Uda River at its confluence with the Selenga River, Selenga. According to the Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census, 43 ...

. In 1937, Tsydenova was elected a deputy of the

. She served in the , , and convocations of the Supreme Soviet, leaving office in 1954. In 1937 and 1938, she became an instructor in the AUCP(b) apparatus of the Khorinsky District and the Buryat-Mongol ASSR. In 1939, she was a named a people's assessor of the Supreme Court of the

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. On 12 April 1941, Tsydenova was elected chairman of the Presidium of the . In this position, Tsydenova led Buryatia through

. 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. 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 until her retirement in 1960. Tsydenova died in Ulan-Ude in 1994. She was a recipient of the

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and had been named "Honored Veterinarian of the Buryat ASSR". Following her death, the

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renamed a street in the village of

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after Tsydenova and installed a memorial plaque at her home in Ulan-Ude.

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