Bat-Ochiryn Eldev-Ochir

Bat-Ochiryn Eldev-Ochir
Бат-Очирын Элдэв-Очир
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Party
In office
January 30, 1929 – March 13, 1930
Preceded byÖlziin Badrakh
Succeeded byPeljidiin Genden
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Party
In office
June 30, 1932 – July 30, 1932
Preceded byZolbingiin Shijee
Succeeded byJambyn Lkhümbe
Personal details
Born1905
Zasagt Province, Outer Mongolia, Qing China
Died1937 (aged 31–32)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Political partyMongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (1922–1937)

Bat-Ochiryn Eldev-Ochir (Mongolian: Бат-Очирын Элдэв-Очир; 1905–1937) was a prominent political figure in early years of the Mongolian People's Republic who, between 1928 and 1937, was one of three secretaries of the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP). He served as the party's First Secretary from 1929 to 1930 and again for a month in 1932. As party leader, Eldev-Ochir pushed for rapid implementation of socialist policies (forced collectivization and property confiscation) during the “Leftist” period of the early 1930s, led the persecution of institutional Buddhism in Mongolia, and backed Soviet-sponsored purges of counterrevolutionary elements, particularly Buryat-Mongols, during the Lkhümbe affair in 1934-1935. He died in 1937 after being injured in a car crash.