Altan-Ölgii National Cemetery

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

Notable burials[]

Choibalsan and Sukhbaatar[]

The revolutionary hero 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[]

References[]

^ C.R. Bawden, The Modern History of Mongolia, London 1968, p.10
^ "Ю.Цэдэнбал агсны гэгээн дурсгалд". Улаанбаатарын сонин. Retrieved 2021-06-12.

External links[]

Altan-Ölgii National Cemetery at Find a Grave

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[1] C.R. Bawden, The Modern History of Mongolia, London 1968, p.10

[:0-2] "Ю.Цэдэнбал агсны гэгээн дурсгалд". Улаанбаатарын сонин. Retrieved 2021-06-12.

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