Tolbo

Tolbo

Tolbo

District in Bayan-Ölgii Province, Mongolia

Tolbo (Mongolian: Толбо, Stain) is a sum (district) of Bayan-Ölgii Province in western Mongolia. It is primarily inhabited by ethnic Kazakhs. As of 2014 it had a population of 3939 people.[1]

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A large saline lake, Tolbo Lake, is located in the district, just north of the sum center. The lake was the site of the Battle of Tolbo Lake (1921) during the Russian Civil War where Bolsheviks and Mongolian allies defeated an army of White Russians.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "АЙМГИЙН ХҮН АМ, НИЙГМИЙН ЗАРИМ ҮЗҮҮЛЭЛТҮҮД" (PDF) (in Mongolian). Bayan-ulgii.nso.mn. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  2. [2]
    Robert Arthur Rupen (1979). How Mongolia is really ruled: a political history of the Mongolian People's Republic, 1900-1978. Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University. p. 139.

48°24′47″N 90°17′13″E


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