Damdin Sükhbaatar
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Damdin Sükhbaatar was a Mongolian revolutionary, founder of the Mongolian People's Party, and leader of the Mongolian partisan army that took Khüree during the Mongolian Revolution of 1921. For his pa
Sükhbaatar c. 1920–22
Monument marking Sükhbaatar's birthplace
Sükhbaatar (right) with his wife Yanjmaa
Sükhbaatar on horseback
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa
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Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa was a Mongolian politician. As Chairwoman of the Presidium of the State Great Khural, she became the second non-hereditary woman head of state after Khertek Anchimaa-Toka of Tannu
Damdin Sükhbaatar
…comrades, and after the training he became a platoon leader of the machine gun company at Khujirbulan. In 1913, he set up his own household with his wife Yanjmaa. They had had their first son in 1911, but Yanjmaa's parents objected to the relationship on the grounds that Sükhbaatar was too poor. In late June…
Yanjmaa in 1950