1. Gonchigiin Bumtsend was a Mongolian revolutionary who held several high level positions within the Mongolian government in the 1940s and early 1950s.
11 Facts About Gonchigiin Bumtsend
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Gonchigiin Bumtsend was Chairman of the Presidium of the State Little Khural of the Mongolian People's Republic from July 1940 until his death, 1953.
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The son of a poor herding family, Gonchigiin Bumtsend taught himself to read and write Mongolian script at age 13 and helped illiterate herdsmen in his area write petitions to the government.
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Gonchigiin Bumtsend made his first contact with Mongolian revolutionaries in 1920 while working for the administration of his local hoshuu.
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Gonchigiin Bumtsend helped collect winter clothing for the partisan army and was involved in propaganda work.
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Gonchigiin Bumtsend was made a unit commander in the Mongolian partisan army commanded by Damdin Sukhbaatar during the Mongolian Revolution of 1921 and played a role in the defeat of the Chinese garrison at Kyakhta in March 1921.
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Gonchigiin Bumtsend joined the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party in 1923 and spent much of the 1920s working as a police chief while strengthening the administrative structures of the revolution in his home district.
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Gonchigiin Bumtsend was chosen to serve as chairman of the Presidium of the State Small Khural at the Tenth Party Congress in 1940.
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Gonchigiin Bumtsend became a member of the country's Politburo in 1943 and chairman of the Great Khural in 1951.
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Gonchigiin Bumtsend died in office on September 23,1953, aged 72.
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Gonchigiin Bumtsend was twice awarded the Order of Sukhbaatar and received the Soviet Order of Lenin.