Khas-Ochiryn Luvsandorj (; 1910 – 16 November 1937) was a Mongolian politician. He was the Secretary of the ruling
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party from 1934 to 1936; in 1937, he was arrested on charges of
counter-revolution, and was executed the following November.
Biography
Khas-Ochiryn Luvsandorj was born in 1910 in
Tüsheet Khan (later
Shaamar District,
Selenge Province
Selenge () is one of the 21 aimags (provinces) of Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south and southeast. It covers an area of , with a population of 3.5 million, ...
). He began work in 1926 as a scribe in the local ''tamgyn gazar'' (administration), and in 1932 became chairman of the provincial committee of the
Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League. In 1933, he was elected chairman of the Selenge provincial committee of the
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and, in 1934, a member of the presidium and as secretary of the party's Central Committee (October 1934 to August 1936). During his tenure, he was also editor of the publication ''Namyn Baiguulalt'' ('Party Organization'). In the autumn of 1936, he was sent to the
Soviet Institute of Oriental Studies. While in Mongolia on holiday in the summer of 1937, he was arrested by the
Internal Security Directorate's "special commission" on charges of counterrevolution during the
Stalinist purges. He was sentenced to death and shot on 16 November 1937, and rehabilitated in 1962.
References
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1910 births
1937 deaths
Mongolian communists
Mongolian People's Party politicians
20th-century executions by Mongolia
Soviet rehabilitations
People from Selenge Province
Executed Mongolian people
Great Purge victims from Mongolia
Executed communists