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Bumble-Bee

October 6, 2020

Government Palace (built in 1951 on the spot formally occupied by the national theater or "Green Domed Theater") is located on the north side of the square.[4] It is fronted by a large colonnade monument to Genghis Khan, Ögedei Khan, and Kublai Khan, completed in 2006 in time for the 800th anniversary of Genghis Khan's coronation.[3] Prior to its demolition in 2005, Sükhbaatar's Mausoleum, the former burial place of Damdin Sükhbaatar and Khorloogiin Choibalsan occupied the area just in front of the Government palace.[5] On the square's western side sits the headquarters of the Ulaanbaatar Bank, Ulaanbaatar City Administration building, often referred to by locals at "the Death Star" because of its dark exterior,[6] the headquarters of Golomt Bank, the Mongolian Stock Exchange building (formerly the Eldev-Ochir Cinema: 1946–1948), the Mongolian Telecommunications Building, and the Central Post Office. The eastern side of the square is flanked by the Central Cultural Palace Building and State Ballet and Opera House, built between 1946 and 1949, and the Central Towers, a glass and metal skyscraper completed in 2008. Just east of the Government Palace, on the square's north-east corner, sits the former home to the State Printing Press, a white two story building designed by German architect Kavel Maher in the 1920s,[7] which re-opened as the Galleria Ulaanbaatar Shopping Mall in 2018.[8] To the south sits the old Lenin Club building (built in 1929) located right next to the modern sail shaped skyscraper, Blue Sky Tower.[9] Besides the centrally located Sükhbaatar monument, several other statues dot the square's perimeter including one of former president Jamsrangiin Sambuu on the north-western corner, and another for slain revolutionary leader Sanjaasürengiin Zorig across the intersection on the south-western corner (in front of the Central Post Office).

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Petra

November 4, 2022

Enjoy urban flair once more. A nice walk takes us through Ulanbator, past magnificent buildings.

A contrast to the silence and vastness that awaits us in the near future

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August 13, 2023

Not so often mentioned in travel guides: the dictator Choibalsan had himself worshiped here, almost as a copy of the Lenin mausoleum from 1954 - 2005: his ashes were kept here in an urn.

The democratic awakening for Mongolia also began on the square in 1990 🇲🇳. Hunger strikes took place which contributed to the collapse of the regime and ended socialist rule.

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