VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The Government Palace of Mongolia was constructed in 1951. Its design is European and uses technologies traditionally applied in construction of Mongol khans' palaces. In 1961 and 1981, the palace was extended and in 1987 the building was renovated.
The palace houses the presidential office, the legislative State Great Hural with its offices, the governmental offices, Constitutional Court, the Government's State Protocol Service, as well as offices of top officials, academics and cultural figures involved in developing state policy.
The palace has hosted all four presidential inauguration ceremonies.
The building comprises over 490 offices, ten halls to host meetings of the Mongolian Government, Constitutional Court and protocol events, as well as a library, a reading hall and over 40 smaller offices.
The palace is decorated with over 100 paintings, ten sculptures, a marble bas-relief of Genghis Khan, and the white nine-tailed banner, the state symbol of Mongolia. The interior also includes the 17-meter wide historically themed painting ‘The Seven Jewels of the Monarch' by Lhagvasuren Nyankhuugiin and portraits of Mongolia's most prominent political figures.
In 2006, the year marking the 800th anniversary of the Mongol Empire, construction of a five-storey Genghis Khan memorial complex on the palace's south side was launched. The memorial facade, finished in 2009, has a shape reminiscent of traditional yurts, with its 64 pillars and a grand statue of Genghis Khan sitting on a throne guarded by two horsemen on each side and sculptures to his son Ögedei Khan and grandson Kublai Khan.
The interior of the memorial complex' grand hall includes the state nine-tailed white banner, the oldest surviving literary work ‘The Secret History of the Mongols', the Great Zasag Law written around 1206-1218, and the originals of the Mongolian Constitution issued in 1924, 1940, 1960 and 1992. The next presidential inauguration will take place in the hall.
The memorial complex' ground floor contains the National History Museum, while the first floor has a reception room and an exhibition hall. The second floor contains the Palace of Honour and the top floor houses the President's office.
