Улаанбаатар
‘Two Nations – One Victory’ exhibition to be staged
Society
Ulaanbaatar
/MONTSAME/ On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Victory of the Battle
of Khalkhiin Gol, ‘Two Nations – One Victory’ photo exhibition will be launched
at the Mongolian National Art Gallery on September 2. The MONTSAME national
news agency of Mongolia and the Sputnik agency, a subsidiary of the Rossiya Segodnya news
agency of Russia will jointly organize the event.
The exhibition
will display around 50 rare photographs including over 20 photos in
MONSTAME’s archive with captions such as ‘On the spot where the enemy’s fighter
aircraft crashed’, ‘Soviet and Mongolian troops before the battle’, and ‘Marshal
of the Mongolian People's Republic Kh.Choibalsan meets Soviet-Mongolian
soldiers’, ‘Personal belongings of Japanese soldiers captured in the battle’,
and ‘Selenge-2015 Mongolian and Russian armed forces’ joint drill against
terrorism’. While photos from the Russian side will be with captions ‘Commander of the
first Soviet army unit in Mongolia Georgy Zhukov’, ‘An exhibition displaying
the arms captured by Soviet and Mongolian soldiers during the battle’, ‘Japanese
soldiers captured by the Red Army around Khalkhiin gol’ and ‘Soviet officers
interrogating captured Japanese soldiers’.
