12 Facts About Bat-Ochiryn Eldev-Ochir

Bat-Ochiryn Eldev-Ochir was a prominent political figure in early years of the Mongolian People's Republic who, between 1928 and 1937, was one of three secretaries of the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party.

Bat-Ochiryn Eldev-Ochir served as the party's First Secretary from 1929 to 1930 and again for a month in 1932.

Bat-Ochiryn Eldev-Ochir died in 1937 after being injured in a car crash.

Bat-Ochiryn Eldev-Ochir was born in 1905 in Zasagt Khan Province where, from 1922 to 1925, he was leader of the local cell of the Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League.

Bat-Ochiryn Eldev-Ochir officially joined the MPRP in 1925, enrolled in the MPRP Party School in Ulaanbaatar, and then went on to attend the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in the USSR, graduating in 1928.

In March 1930, Bat-Ochiryn Eldev-Ochir was appointed head of the Internal Security Directorate and ordered to suppress uprisings against the government's unpopular policies by lamas at Togsbuyant and Ulaangom monasteries in Uvs Province.

Bat-Ochiryn Eldev-Ochir ordered the on-the-spot execution of 30 leaders of the rebellion.

Bat-Ochiryn Eldev-Ochir was reelected party secretary at the Ninth Party Congress 1934 and again in 1937.

In spring 1933 Prime Minister Genden and Bat-Ochiryn Eldev-Ochir consented to the arrest of party secretary Jambyn Lkhumbe in the wake of spurious allegations that he was head of a Japanese spy ring plotting the government's overthrow.

In 1935 Bat-Ochiryn Eldev-Ochir took charge of an extraordinary commission on religion through which the Central Committee continued its persecution of the Buddhist Church.

Bat-Ochiryn Eldev-Ochir often attended Saturday meetings at monasteries where he praised revolutionary principals or threatened monasteries with closure.

Around the same time it is believed that Bat-Ochiryn Eldev-Ochir died a premature death.