page_title: Choibalsan (city)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Choibalsan (city) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Choibalsan (Choybalsan, Bayan Tuman) area, Mongolia
context_page_description: Choibalsan is the fourth-largest city in Mongolia after Ulaanbaatar, Darkhan, and Erdenet. The name of the city was Bayan Tümen until 1941, when it was renamed after the communist leader Khorloogiin Choibalsan. It is the capital of the province of Dornod. The city administrative unit's official name is Kherlen sum, with area of 281 square kilometres or 108 square miles.
  It is situated at the Kherlen River, at an elevation of 747 metres or 2,451 feet above sea level.
context_section_description: The location has been a post on a trading route for centuries. In the 19th century it grew into a city, and became the economic hub of eastern Mongolia in the twentieth century and is still serving as an active economic center for the Eastern Mongolia.
  Due to the city's proximity to the site of the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, it contains a museum dedicated to Georgy Zhukov, hero of the battle.
caption: Choibalsan (labelled as CHOYBALSAN (BAYAN TUMAN)) (1955)
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