Lt.Colonel Sambuu Dorjgotov

[Bob]

Here a group of documents that belonged to Lt.Colonel Sambuu Dorjgotov. He was a senior ranking officer at the Ministry of Public Security of MPR back in 1970s. He was a Senior Officer (Deputy Chief) of the Department #1 (Foreign Intelligence) of the Ministry of Public Security in 1972. In other word: a spy. At that time he held the rank of Major.

 

Documents in the group: 

 

1) Order of Sukhbaatar recipient's booklet for receiving monthly 50 tugrugs. The document has the recipient's photo and the details of the Sukhbaatar order (besides the award date and decree number, it also lists the serial number #1289 and serial number of the booklet #1241). He received the payments from November 1977 till end of June 1979. 

 

2) Order and Medal Booklet listing three awards: 1) Honorary Medal of Combat # 5110 awarded in 1956; 2) Order of Combat Valor awarded in 1961 and Order of Red Banner of Combat Valor awarded in 1972. 

 

3) Document for the Medal of 50 Years of Mongolian State Security awarded in 1972.

 

4)  Document for the Medal of 50 Years of Mongolian People's Army awarded in 1971. 

 

5) Document for the Medal of 30 Years of Victory over Japan awarded in 1975. 

 

6) Delegate's credentials to the 16th Congress of Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party  dated June 8, 1971. 

 

[Gunner 1]

Mongolian enthusiasts may be interested that the feature article in the January - February issue of JOMSA: The Journal of the Orders and Medals Society of America is "The Gold Star Medal and 'Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic' Title Awarded to Lieutenant Colonel Choi Dugarjav" by Khuujii Urnukh and Pamela J H Slutz.  The issue goes to the printer on 1 January and will be out to the membership about the third week of January..

[Bob]

Yes, eagerly awaiting that. 

Ms Slutz is a former US ambassador to Mongolia and apparently caught a bit of the Mongolia collecting bug as well. She was also awarded a Polar Star order,

Edited December 28, 2019 by Bob

[Chris Boonzaier]

1 minute ago, Bob said:

 

Ms Slut is a former US ambassador to Mongolia

I wonder if she would consider getting married, just to change her name....

[Bob]

Oops... unfortunate typo, my laptop is old and clearly needs a new keyboard!

[seb16trs]

Hello Bob, this group is really interesting, but.... why do the late orders do not have their s/n written in the order booklet? A double clerk failure would be really astounding?

[Bob]

Good question, impossible to answer unfortunately. I could just speculate.