Tseren-Ochiryn Dambadorj

Who is Tseren-Ochiryn Dambadorj?

Tseren-Ochiryn Dambadorj was a Mongolian politician who served as Chairman of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party from 1921 to 1928. He was expelled from the party in 1928 for his rightist policies and died in Moscow, USSR in 1934.

Born in Niislel Khüree in 1898, Dambadorj attended Manchu and Russian Interpreter's School in the capital before moving onto the Russian gynamsium and then secondary school in Troitskosavsk. He joined the Mongolian People's Party in 1921, was acting chairman of the MPP Central Committee in March 1921. After the Outer Mongolian Revolution of 1921 he was elected vice chairman and then chairman of the MPP Central Committee from March 15, 1922 to January 12, 1923 and again from August 31, 1924 to October 27, 1928.

At the Third Party Congress in 1924, Dambadorj along with leftist leader Elbegdorj Rinchino, led calls for the arrest and execution of moderate party leader Soliin Danzan, accusing him of representing bourgeois interests and engaging in business with Chinese firms. Following Danzan’s death, Dambadorj and the party's right wing assumed control of the party and promoted rightist policies mirroring Lenin’s New Economic Policy in the Soviet Union.