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Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj

Died in 1937

Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj was born on 17 November 1906, the son of an indebted petty noble; his mother died when he was seven. Private secretary to the leader of the revolution, trained at the Leningrad military and political academy, he studied in Berlin and Leipzig from 1926 to 1929. Secretary of the organisation of revolutionary writers from 1930 to 1937, he was arrested in 1932, then again in February 1937. He died of a stroke on 13 July 1937, in a street in Ulaanbaatar, at the age of thirty; he was rehabilitated in 1989.

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