About Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat (Mongolian: Пунсалмаагийн Очирбат; 23 January 1942 – 17 January 2025) was a Mongolian politician and geologist who served as the first president of Mongolia from 1990 to 1997. A member of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party since 1965, he served multiple ministerial positions between 1972 and 1990. In the aftermath of the 1990 Democratic Revolution, he briefly served as Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural (head of state) from March to September 1990. Following the country's first multi-party elections, Ochirbat was elected by the People's Great Khural as President of the Mongolian People's Republic in September 1990. As inaugural officeholder, he went onto become the first Mongolian president to be elected by direct popular vote in 1993. During his presidential tenure, he oversaw the drafting of a new constitution, the country's democratization and free market transition. == Early life and career == Ochirbat was born on 23 January 1942 in Tüdevtei, Zavkhan Province. His father is from Govi-Altai Province. He adopted his mother's name, "Punsalmaa," after his father died in 1947. From 1951 to 1960, he attended school in the capital city, Ulaanbaatar, and then studied at the Leningrad Higher School of Mining, graduating in 1965 with a degree in mining engineering.
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