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Tsendiin Damdinsüren

Died in 1986

Tsendiin Damdinsüren was born on 14 September 1908 at Matad, in eastern Mongolia, the son of a scribe. Elected in 1926 to the central committee of the revolutionary youth league, he chaired the council of trade unions in 1929, then studied in Leningrad from 1933 to 1938. Arrested on his return and accused of pan-Mongolism, he spent more than a year in prison. Editor of the party daily from 1942, he headed the committee of sciences and then the writers' union, wrote the words of the national anthem in 1950 and accompanied the switch to Cyrillic. He died on 27 May 1986 in Ulaanbaatar.

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