Khas-Ochiryn Luvsandorj ( mn, Хас-Очирын Лувсандорж; 1910 – November 16, 1937) was leader of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) from 1934 to 1936. He was arrested in the summer of 1937 on charges of

counterrevolution A counter-revolutionary or an anti-revolutionary is anyone who opposes or resists a revolution, particularly one who acts after a revolution in order to try to overturn it or reverse its course, in full or in part. The adjective "counter-revoluti ...

and was

executed Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...

the following November.

Career

Luvsandorj was born in 1910 in

Tüsheet Khan Tüsheet Khan (Mongolian language, Mongolian: Түшээт хан; ) refers to the territory as well as the Descent from Genghis Khan, Chingizid dynastic rulers of the Tüsheet Khanate, one of four Khalkha Mongols, Khalka khanates that emerged fro ...

Province (present-day Shaamar district of

Selenge Province Selenge ( mn, Сэлэнгэ) is one of the 21 aimags (provinces) of Mongolia, located in the north of the country. The name is derived from the Selenge river. The capital is Sükhbaatar. The province of Darkhan-Uul Darkhan-Uul ( mn, Дарх ...

). 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. In 1936 he was sent to the Soviet Institute of Oriental Studies. He returned to Mongolia in the summer of 1937 on holiday and found himself swept up in the country's

Stalinist purges The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Yezhov'), was Soviet General Secreta ...

. Accused of counterrevolution by the Interior Ministry's "Special Commission", he was seized as part of the first wave of mass arrests of 65 high ranking government officials and intelligentsia on the night of Sept 10, 1937. He was sentenced and executed on November 16, 1937. He was rehabilitated in 1962.

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Luvsandorj, Khas-Ochiryn 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