Altan-Ölgii National Cemetery

Burial site in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

The Altan-Ölgii National Cemetery (Mongolian: Алтан-Өлгий) is a cemetery located in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Notable burials

Choibalsan and Sukhbaatar

The revolutionary Damdin Sükhbaatar was buried here in 1923, but was later exhumed and reinterred into Sükhbaatar's Mausoleum together with Khorloogiin Choibalsan.[1] The corpses of both rulers were again exhumed, ritually burned, and the ashes entombed at Altan-Ölgii in 2005.

Other

  • Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal[2]
  • John Gombojab Hangin
  • Zhamyangiyn Lhagvasuren
  • Gonchigiin Bumtsend
  • Jambyn Batmönkh

References

  1. ^ C.R. Bawden, The Modern History of Mongolia, London 1968, p.10
  2. ^ "Ю.Цэдэнбал агсны гэгээн дурсгалд". Улаанбаатарын сонин. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  • Altan-Ölgii National Cemetery at Find a Grave Edit this at Wikidata

47°55′52″N 106°58′19″E / 47.931°N 106.972°E / 47.931; 106.972


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