Khas-Ochiryn Luvsandorj

Khas-Ochiryn Luvsandorj (Mongolian: Хас-Очирын Лувсандорж; 1910 – November 16, 1937) was leader of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) from 1934 to 1936.[1] He was arrested in the summer of 1937 on charges of counterrevolution and was executed the following November.

Khas-Ochiryn Luvsandorj, Хас-Очирын Лувсандорж
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
In office October 5, 1934 – August 15, 1936
Preceded by	Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav
Succeeded by	Banzarjavyn Baasanjav
Personal details
Political party	Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (1926–1937)

Career

Luvsandorj was born in 1910 in Tüsheet Khan Province (present-day Shaamar district of Selenge Province). In 1926 he started work as a scribe in the local seal (administration) office. He became Chairman of the Provincial Committee Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League in 1932, Chairman of the Selenge MPRP Committee in 1933, and Member of the Presidium and Secretary of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party in 1934.[2]

In 1936 he was sent to the Soviet Institute of Oriental Studies. He returned to Mongolia in the summer of 1937 on holiday and found himself swept up in the country's Stalinist purges. Accused of counterrevolution by the Interior Ministry's "Special Commission", he was seized as part of the first wave of mass arrests of 65 high ranking government officials and intelligentsia on the night of Sept 10, 1937. He was sentenced and executed on November 16, 1937.

He was rehabilitated in 1962.[3]

Notes

1. "World Leaders Index". Archived from the original on 14 October 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
2. Sanders, Alan J.K. (2010). Historical Dictionary of Mongolia. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press. pp. xlix. ISBN 0810861917.
3. Sanders, Alan J.K. (1996). Historical Dictionary of Mongolia. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. pp. 120–121. ISBN 0810830779.