1. Jamsrangiin Sambuu was a Mongolian politician and diplomat who, as chairman of the presidium of the Mongolian People's Republic People's Great Khural, served as the effective president of the Mongolian People's Republic from 1954 until his death in 1972.
Jamsrangiin Sambuu was dispatched to Arkhangai Province in 1930 to oversee collectivization of herders and confiscation of property belonging to nobles and the Buddhist Church.
When violent uprisings in western Mongolia forced the curtailment of such policies in 1932, Jamsrangiin Sambuu deftly avoided the political blowback for the debacle that felled many of the party's most extreme leftists including Olziin Badrakh, Zolbingiin Shijee and Prime Minister Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav.
Between 1932 and 1936 Jamsrangiin Sambuu went on to work in provincial party administrative offices in Dundgovi, and Omnogovi Provinces.
Jamsrangiin Sambuu had been an early supporter of Soviet leadership in Mongolian affairs and was viewed by Mongolia's supreme leader Khorloogiin Choibalsan as someone he could depend on to carry out the party line without deviation.
Jamsrangiin Sambuu took a keen interest in supporting Mongolian students who were studying in Russia, seeing them as the key to Mongolia's future, and cultivated many of Mongolia's future diplomats.
However, Jamsrangiin Sambuu was his country's chief diplomatic representative during the Stalinist repressions in Mongolia during which several of Mongolia's top leaders were arrested, transported to the Soviet Union, and executed, many at the Butovo firing range just outside Moscow.
Jamsrangiin Sambuu published his most popular work Advice to Herdsmen in 1945.
The book contained advice on herding that Jamsrangiin Sambuu had collected from experts and local herders.
In 1951 Jamsrangiin Sambuu was elected to the Great People's Khural and on July 7,1954 was named Chairman of the Presidium of the Great People's Khural.
From 1954 Jamsrangiin Sambuu served concurrently in the Central Committee and as a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the MPRP.
Jamsrangiin Sambuu died of cancer on May 21,1972 at the age of 76 and was given a state funeral.
Jamsrangiin Sambuu was awarded the Order of Sukhbaatar medal four times, the Soviet Order of the Red Banner of Labour twice, the Order of the Polar Star as well as the Order of Lenin and the Lenin Peace Prize in 1966.