Mongolian Prime Minister U.Khurelsukh, has held a meeting at State House with  Aisholpan Nurgaiv, a 11th grade schoolgirl from the Zaiyed School in Bayan-Ulgii province – better known as the ‘Eagle Huntress’. Aisholpan starred in a documentary film of that name about a young girl from an ethnic Kazakh family of twelve generations of eagle hunters, who against all odds continues the age old tradition.

The Prime Minister expressed his gratitude to Aisholpan and to her parents for raising such a strong girl.

Becoming a doctor is Aisholpan’s dream’ and she has already received invitations from Harvard and London University. Recently, she received the Asia Game Changer Lifetime Achievement Award for breaking gender barriers at a remarkably young age.

Bayan-Ulgii, which is Aisholpan Nurgaiv’s home is located in the mountainous far west of Mongolia and is the only province with a Kazakh majority. Here Mongolian is a second language. The Bayan-Ulgii Kazakhs are famous for their age-old tradition of using trained eagles for hunting.