Amagayev, Matvey Innokentievich

Childhood

He was born the sixth (youngest) child in a rich, but soon ruined, peasant family. After the death of his mother (1900) and his father (1904), he lived with his brother Ilya, and from childhood he worked on the farm.

In the Bilchir Buryat school he learned the Russian language. In 1915 he organized an agricultural circle in which he conducted cultural and educational work among the population. In 1917 he graduated from the Irkutsk Teachers' Seminary ^[3] . In May 1917 he joined the Irkutsk organization of the RSDLP ; in a number of rural societies organized Soviets . Until February 1918, he worked as a teacher in the Irkutsk province, until May 1918 - chairman of the Ekhirit-Bulagat aimag court, then - instructor-propagandist of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets of Siberia (Centrosibir) ^[3] .

With the outbreak of the Civil War, he was in underground work in Manchuria . From January to August 1920, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Proletarian Cultural and Educational Organization in Vladivostok . He studied at the Vladivostok Teachers Institute and at the same time at the Faculty of Law of the Far Eastern University .

Since August 1920 - Chairman of the Angara Ajmachic Revolutionary Committee, then - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Aginsky Aymachian Council ^[3] ; directly involved in the suppression of the kulak rebellion in the Angarsk aimak.

In April 1921, it was decided that a temporary Buryat Central Committee should be created under the chairmanship of M.N. Erbanov . Amagayev joined the committee, being the deputy chairman.

Amagayev, together with Yerbanov and other members of the committee, was involved in the development of the "Regulation on the Central Committee of the Buryat Mongols of Eastern Siberia", on its relations with the Soviet authorities of the Irkutsk province and the people's revolutionary authorities of the Far Eastern Republic , as well as the development of projects on the governing bodies of the Soviet Buryat Autonomous Region .

In January 1922, he was simultaneously appointed Minister of National Affairs of the Government of the Far Eastern Republic . As a major political figure, he made a significant contribution to solving general political issues of the Far Eastern Republic . He made the greatest contribution to solving the national question.

After the Civil War and the entry of the Far Eastern Republic into the RSFSR, the administration of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Region decided to dissolve and transfer all power to the formed Revolutionary Committee of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Region.

The chairman of the committee was M.I. Amagayev. On his initiative, the Presidium of the Buryat-Mongolian Regional Committee of the RCP (B.) On November 20, 1922 decided to create a party organization in the Buryat Autonomous Region of the Far East.

After the formation of the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, M. I. Amagayev was elected Chairman of the Presidium of the CEC .

From 1924 to 1927 he worked in various positions in people's Mongolia : member of the Small Khural of Mongolia , authorized representative of the Executive Committee of the Communist International in Mongolia, adviser to the Ministry of Finance of Mongolia, chairman of the Economic Council of Mongolia and Tuva, co-editor of the Economy of Mongolia magazine ^[3] . In 1928-1930 worked in the People’s Commissariat of Foreign and Internal Trade of the USSR , was chairman of the Vostokkino joint-stock company ^[3] .

In 1930-1932. studied at the Department of History of the Institute of the Red Professors ; at the same time he taught at the Department of Party Building of the Communist University of the Workers of the East , taught the history of the Mongolian national revolutionary movement at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies .

In November 1932 he was recalled from his studies and appointed rector of the Leningrad Institute of Living Oriental Languages . N. Poppe, who talked a lot with A. in Mong. and enjoying his confidence, noted in him a natural mind and watered. insight, unorthodox thinking. ^[2] . In 1935 he became a professor ^[3] . In January 1935 he received a strict party reprimand "for poor study of the composition of the institute, dulling vigilance, and fuzzy leadership of life" of the institute. In 1936, he was simultaneously appointed temporary acting director of the Courses of National Minorities of the Soviet East at the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.

Arrested on September 30, 1937. February 19, 1940 under Art. 58-1a, 7, 11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR sentenced to 8 years in prison; served his sentence in the 39th camp point of Sevzheldorlag , Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic . He died in custody on August 18, 1944.

Rehabilitated in 1956 ^{[2] [3]} .

In the last years of his life, he prepared the monograph “The History of the Revolutionary Movement in Mongolia” ^[2] .

Selected Works

• Modern Mongolia // Life of Buryatia. - 1924. - No. 2/3. - S. 6-9.
• Mongolia on the path of reform // Life of Buryatia. - 1925. - No. 9/12. - S. 4-10.
• (Amuga) . The next tasks of economic policy in connection with the monetary reform // KhM. - 1926. - No. 2. - S. 1-7.
• To the question of the ways and prospects of the socio-economic development of Mongolia: (From the report of Comrade Amug at the 5th Congress of the MPRP) // Kh. - 1926. - No. 4/5. - S. 1-16.
• 1st Mongolian Fair // KhM. - 1927. - No. 1. - S. 3-5.
• The five-year plan for the development of the national economy and the tasks of the mass school - Verkhneudinsk, 1930.

• Buryatia
• Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies

• Amagayev (pseudo: Amuga) Matvey Innokentyevich (1897-1944) // People and Fates: Biobibliogr. words. Orientalists - victims watered. terror in owls period (1917-1991) / Prep. Ya. V. Vasilkov and M. Yu. Sorokina. - SPb. : Petersburg. Oriental Studies, 2003. - ISBN 5-85803-225-7 .
• Vasilevsky V. I. Revolution and Civil War in Transbaikalia: A Brief Biogr. decree. - Chita, 1989.
• Egunov N.P. M.I. Amagayev. - Ulan-Ude: Buryat. Prince Publishing House, 1974. - 100 p. - 5,000 copies.
• Roshchin S.K. M.I. Amagayev: years in Mongolia // East. - 1997. - No. 6. - S. 43-52.

• Vasilevsky V.I. Amagayev M.I. (neopr.) . Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia. Date of treatment December 19, 2012. Archived December 20, 2012.
• Amagaev Matvey Innokentyevich (neopr.) . A Handbook on the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898-1991. Date of treatment December 19, 2012. Archived December 20, 2012.