Zhamyangiyn Lhagvasuren
After graduating and working for 4 years in his provincial administration, at the age of 20, Lkhagvasuren voluntarily enlisted in the Mongolian People's Army, despite being exempt from the draft due to his education status, serving in the 15th Cavalry Division.[2] Upon returning to Mongolia in January 1939, he was appointed head of the Political Council and Deputy Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army.Lkhagvasuren rapidly modernized and motorized the Mongolian People's Army (which had previously consisted of mainly cavalry) into a mechanised, combined arms centered force.Lkhagvasuren entered matrimony with Dashtseden Tsend, the adopted daughter of the State Oracle, Choijin Lama, Luvsankhaidav, who was the sibling of the Bogd Khan.The youngest daughter, Lkhagvajav, graduated from the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics and represented Mongolia as a trade attache in the embassy in Poland for eight years.He was posthumously awarded the highest military honor in Mongolia, Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic, after years of pressure on the state and the party from supporters and admirers of the commander.