Gonchigiin Bumtsend


Gonchigiin Bumtsend was a Mongolian revolutionary who held several high level positions within the Mongolian government in the 1940s and early 1950s. He was Chairman of the Presidium of the State Little Khural of the Peoples Republic of Mongolia from July 1940 until his death.

Bumtsend was born onSeptember 1881 in Znbrenhanuul Hoshuu, TsheetKhan Province . The son of a poor herding family, Bumtsend taught himself to read and write Mongolian script at ageand helped illiterate herdsmen in his area write petitions to the government. In his youth he worked as a woodworker and a cart driver at a horse relay station. During the Bogd Khanaate he worked as a laborer in Khree .

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