Ardan Lopsonovich Angarkhaev is a Russian poet and writer of Buryat origin. He was born in 1946 in the village of Tablangut in Tunkinsky district of Buryatia. He graduated from the Toltoy Secondary School (1966), and then studied in the physics and mathematics faculty of the Buryat State Pedagogical Institute (1970). He worked as a physics teacher at the Torskoy secondary school (1970-1976), as an employee of the Sayany newspaper (1976-1978), and as an editor at the Buryat book publishing house (1980-1986). He served as editor-in-chief of the Buryad newspaper Unen from 1996 to 2010.
