Chimit Tsydendambaev: experience of literary biography

The article reviews the features of literary biography of the talented Buryat writer, the classic of Buryat literature Chimit Tsydendambaev. The writer is very important phenomenon in the history of Buryat literature because he sensitively caught contradictions and greatness of his era. Delicate lyric poet, sincere thoughtful artist, Ch. Tsydendambaev created many works which main values are deep feeling of the native people, the native nature, the homeland. There is a lot of works about the writer, but his biographic data is fragmentary. Studying of the writer’s literary heritage is impossible without appeal to the facts of his biography. The article is devoted to research of actual problems of Tsydendambaev's biography, his worldview and creative activity in the context of modern perception of the writer’s heritage.