The Ulaanbaatar Winter Festival will take place at the Sky Resort Ski Complex on 16-17 February. The event will consist of  two parts: firstly, the national championships for traditional games, including ice archery and ice anklebone shooting and, secondly, modern sports such as ice climbing, dog sledding, snowboard and tug of war.

Last year, athletes from China and Russia participated in the ice archery and ice anklebone shooting championships. The Ulaanbaatar Tourism Department aims to make the festival a grand-scale international event that attracts tourists during the winter season.

The festival aims to develop special interest tourism, expand the tourism season, augment the number of tourists visiting Ulaanbaatar in winter time and promote Mongolian traditional winter games.