Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal was a Mongolian politician who served as the leader of the Mongolian People's Republic from 1952 to 1984. He served as general secretary of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party from 1940 to 1954 and again from 1958 to 1984, chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1952 to 1974, and chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural from 1974 to 1984.
Tsedenbal in the 1970s
Tsedenbal (far right) at Joseph Stalin's 71st birthday ceremony with Mao Zedong, Nikolai Bulganin, and Walter Ulbricht, 1949
Tsedenbal at the Sixth Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in Berlin, 1963
Tsedenbal with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in 1974
Mongolian People's Republic
The Mongolian People's Republic was a socialist state that existed from 1924 to 1992, located in the historical region of Outer Mongolia under the Qing dynasty. It was officially recognized by the Nationalist government as independent from the Republic of China in 1946. Until 1990, it was a one-party state ruled by the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, and maintained close political and economic ties with the Soviet Union, as part of the Eastern Bloc.
Khorloogiin Choibalsan (left), who led the MPR from 1939 to 1952, and Georgy Zhukov at Khalkhin Gol in 1939
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal led the MPR from 1952 to 1984
Yurt quarter in Ulaanbaatar in 1972
Darkhan Railway Station in 1985
