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MongoliaStudy in the Soviet Union
Mongolia's educational system is supplemented by and crowned
by study in the Soviet Union or Eastern Europe. In 1983 more than
10,000 Mongolians were studying in the Soviet Union as
postgraduates at 10 academies, 191 institutions of higher
learning, 101 specialized secondary schools, and 28 vocational
schools. Each year 1,500 Mongolians were sent to Soviet
vocational schools. Specialists of all sorts, from civil aviation
pilots to urban planners to physicists, were trained in the
Soviet Union. Party members at the mid-level and higher attended
higher party schools in the Soviet Union. As it had since the
early twentieth century, Russian served as the language of
modernity and enlightenment, Mongolia's window on the wider
world. So important was command of Russian that, in 1982, the
People's Great Hural called for the study of Russian to begin in
kindergarten.
Data as of June 1989
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