Mongolia Travel & Tours

It won’t take long before you wonder who Sukhbaatar is – his statue astride a horse dominates the square named after him in Ulaanbaatar, his face is on many currency notes, and there is a provincial capital and aimag called Sukhbaatar. Ulaanbaatar was also named after him, literally meaning 'red hero'.
Born in 1893, probably in what is now Ulaanbaatar, Sukh (which means ‘axe’), as he was originally named, joined the Mongolian army in 1911. He soon became famous for his horsemanship, but was forced to leave the army because of insubordination. In 1917, he joined another army, found against the Chinese, and picked up the added moniker of baatar, or ‘hero’.

Chinggis’ grandson, Kublai Khan (circa 1216-1294), completed the subjugation of China, effectively ending the Song Dynasty (960-1279). He became the emperor of China’s Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). Kublai established his winter capital in Tatu (‘great capital’), today’s Beijing. (So thoroughly have the Chinese erased the traces of the Mongol conquest that only two major monuments in Beijing remain: the Lama Temple and the giant white stupa in Beihai Park.)

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A tomb of a warrior and material objects of the period of the 13th century was discovered from the Bulshin Tolgoi area in Onon soum of Arkhangai Aimag by archeologists led by the history and archeology sciences PhD. D.Navaan. Judging from the materials objects taken from the tomb, the tomb is probable belonged to one of the warriors of Chinggis Khan