Khovd, o Khovd

Dambijanstan
Also known as Ja Lama, Dambijanstan was the self-proclaimed leader of western Mongolia from 1912-1914. A Kalmuk lama from the Russian Volga, historical records describe Ja Lama as an "insane and cruel genius", who would beat to death anyone who disobeyed him, even gouging out the eyes of live men. Many locals held him in awe, believing him to be the bullet-proof reincarnation of the Oirad warrior leader.
He was finally arrested by the Russians while trying to set up his own kingdom at Münjig in souhtern Khovd, and was exiled to Yakutsk in Siberia. In 1918 he somehow managed to make it back to western Mongolia. His first task was to build himself a stone palace, which he financed through a series of highway robberies.
Eventually the central government ran out of patience with the renegade, pretended to offer him a government post and then had him shot. When no-one believed that he had actually been killed, his head was displayed in Uliatsai and then Urga (Ulaan Baatar), before it was smuggled to St Petersburg and bizarrely found its way into the private collection of Peter the Great.

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Getting there and away
The four-hour MIAT flight between Ulaan Baatar and Khovd city (via Tosontsengel) leaves on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday (via Bulgan city) and Saturday and costs US$ 146/256. (...) Our flight had 70 people booked on the 42-seater flight. At one point a fist fight broke out and the pilot pulled up the ladder as people started climbing onto the plane to get a seat. Really! Be warned - get there very, very early!

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