Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal

Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal (born Sept. 17, 1916, Uvs province, Mong.—died April 20, 1991, Moscow, U.S.S.R.) was a Mongolian political leader who was first prime minister (1952–74) and then head of state (1974–84) of Mongolia during the country’s communist period. Tsedenbal, the son of nomadic herders, studied at the Irkutsk Institute of Finance and Economics in the Soviet Union before returning to Mongolia to teach finance in Ulaanbaatar (Ulan Bator), the national capital. He joined the Mongolian...