Soliin Danzan

Soliin Danzan Солийн Данзан
1st General Secretary of the Communist Party of Mongolia
In office 3 March 1921 – 21 September 1921
Preceded by	Position created
Succeeded by	Tseren-Ochiryn Dambadorj
Personal details
Born	1885 Manchuria
Died	August 1924 Ulan Bator, Mongolia
Citizenship	People's Republic of Mongolia
Residence	Mongolia
Known for	Communist revolutionary politics

Soliin Danzan (Mongolian: Солийн Данзан; 1885–1924) was a central figure in Mongolia's early revolutionary movement. He was a founding member of the Mongolian People's Party (later renamed the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party or MPRP) in 1919 and later served as chairman of the Party Central Committee in 1921. Danzan orchestrated the purge and execution of Mongolia's first prime minister, Dogsomyn Bodoo in 1922, but then was himself purged and executed in 1924.

Danzan was born in Tüsheet Khan Province in 1885. As a young man he made his living as a horse thief. Later he went on to work in Niislel Khüree (present day Ulaanbaatar) as a customs official in the Ministry of Finance. In 1919 Danzan, Dansrabilegiin Dogsom, and Damdin Sükhbaatar together established the clandestine nationalist group Züün Khüree (East Khüree) after General Xu Shuzheng's forces entered Niislel Khüree to re-assert Chinese sovereignty. Züün Khüree subsequently merged with the Konsulyn Denj group to form the MPRP in 1919, making Danzan one of the seven founders of the MPRP.

In July 1919 Danzan and Khorloogiin Choibalsan traveled to Verkhneudinsk, the capital of the pro-Soviet Far Eastern Republic, in the first part of July where they met with Boris Shumyatsky, then acting head of the government. For three weeks Shumyatsky dodged their demands for a speedy Soviet decision whether or not to provide military assistance to the Mongolians against the Chinese. Danzan, Darizavyn Losol, and L. Dendev traveled to Omsk in August and then onto Moscow in September 1919 to further consult with Soviet authorities.

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