Mongolian People's Army Монголын Ардын Арми | |
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| Founded | 1921 March |
| Dissolved | 1992 February |
The Mongolian People's Army (MPA), originally known as the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army (MPRA), was the military of the Mongolian People's Republic.
Founding
After returning to Mongolia from Irkutsk, Sükhbaatar organized 50 border Mongolian troops into a partisan detachment led by B. Puntsag. The First Party Congress of the MPRP in 1921 combined all the partisan soldiers into the People's Revolutionary Army, with Sükhbaatar as its commander-in-chief and Choibalsan as commissar.[1]:288–90
References
- ↑ A. A. Guber, et al. (1973). History of the Mongolian People's Republic: 'The Mongolian People's Revolution and the Proclamation of the Mongolian People's Republic' (pp. 286–8).