The country marks Mongolian Athletes’ Day on the first Sunday of July every year. On 1st of July, Athlete Day will be celebrated on Ulaanbaatar’s Chinggis Square.

Engineers are working for restore service in the vast majority of homes in some provinces of Mongolia that lost power during intense winds on 28th of June.

The Gobi Cashmere plant, one of the largest factories in Mongolia has recovered from their recent fire incident and is now operating normally, the company reports.

The first women to travel into space was Soviet-born Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, who in addition to being a cosmonaut was also Russia’s first female general as well as an engineer, master of sport and politician.

H.E. Stefan Duppe, Germany’s Ambassador to Mongolia has handed over the musical score of the soundtrack to the movie ‘Mongolian Beautiful Country’ to Deputy Prime Minister U.Khurelsukh, who is also in charge of the Naadam 2017 Organising Committee.

Prague zoo completed its seventh transport last week, releasing four mares born in captivity in the Czech Republic, Germany and Denmark in the Gobi desert. They will spend the next year in an enclosed area to acclimatize before being freed.

Horseback archery is a traditional Mongolian art that recently has made a comeback in the steppes.

The General Election Committee has changed the second polling date of the presidential election because it coincided with the Mongolian national Naadam festival.

There was no outright winner in Mongolia’s presidential election on Monday, forcing the country’s first ever second-round run-off between the two leading candidates, the country’s General Election Committee said on Tuesday.

Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia, has become enveloped by smoke from forest fires. Fire fighters have been tackling two forest fire sites in nearby Tuv Province by helicopter.