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Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal

Mongolian political leader
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Also known as: Yumjaagiyn Tsedenbal
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Category: History & Society
Yumjaagiin also spelled:
Yumjaagiyn
Born:
Sept. 17, 1916, Uvs province, Mong.
Died:
April 20, 1991, Moscow, U.S.S.R. (aged 74)
Title / Office:
head of state (1974-1984), Mongolia
prime minister (1952-1974), Mongolia
Political Affiliation:
Mongolian People’s Party
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Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal (born Sept. 17, 1916, Uvs province, Mong.—died April 20, 1991, Moscow, U.S.S.R.) Mongolian political leader who was first prime minister (1952–74) and then head of state (1974–84) of Mongolia during the country’s communist period. Tsedenbal, the son of nomadic herders, studied at the Irkutsk Institute of Finance and Economics in the Soviet Union before returning to Mongolia to teach finance in Ulaanbaatar (Ulan Bator), the national capital. He joined the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP; now the Mongolian People’s Party) in 1939 and entered the government as deputy minister and later minister of finance. His rise in the ...(100 of 465 words)

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