12 Facts About Gombojavyn Ochirbat

Gombojavyn Ochirbat is a Mongolian politician and trade union leader.

Gombojavyn Ochirbat was the General Secretary of the ruling Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party in March and April 1990 amid democratic constitutional reforms, and was then its Chairman from April 1990 to 1991.

Gombojavyn Ochirbat was born in 1929 in Nomrog District, Zavkhan Province.

Gombojavyn Ochirbat graduated from Mongolian State University, and studied at Moscow State University from 1952 to 1958.

Gombojavyn Ochirbat was deputy editor-in-chief of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party paper Unen from 1962 to 1964.

From 1962 to 1969, Ochirbat served as head of the Ideological Department of the MPRP Central Committee, of which he was a member fom 1966 to 1992.

Gombojavyn Ochirbat studied at the Academy of Social Sciences of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, graduating with a higher degree in philosophy in 1972.

Gombojavyn Ochirbat was elected chairman of the Central Council of the Mongolian Trade Unions in October 1972.

Gombojavyn Ochirbat was a MPRP deputy to the People's Great Khural from 1966 to 1983, and a member of its presidium from 1977 to 1982.

Gombojavyn Ochirbat was ousted from the MTU in May 1982 by leader Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, and then worked in the Ministry of Education and the Institute of Social Sciences.

Gombojavyn Ochirbat was then the Mongolian representative on the editorial board of the communist journal Problems of Peace and Socialism, published in Prague.

Gombojavyn Ochirbat was an MPRP deputy to the People's Great Khural for Ulaanbaatar 12.