Khas-Ochiryn Luvsandorj

Khas-Ochiryn Luvsandorj, Хас-Очирын Лувсандорж
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Party
In office October 5, 1934 – August 15, 1936
Preceded by	Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav
Succeeded by	Banzarjavyn Baasanjav

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.

Career

Luvsandorj was born in 1910 in Tüsheet-Han 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. The following summer, while back in Mongolia on holiday, he was arrested by the Interior Ministry's "Special Commission" on charges of counterrevolution. He was executed on November 16, 1937.

He was rehabilitated in 1962.^[3]

Notes

1. "World Leaders Index". 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.