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Byambyn Rinchen
China
Byambyn Rinchen, born December 25, 1905, in Kyakhta, wrote the screenplay for the 1945 historical film Tsogt Taij. He studied at the Leningrad Orient Institute and Eötvös Loránd University, earning the first doctorate in Mongolian studies from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He received the Polish Cultural Merit Order and was openly critical of Communist orthodoxy.