Khas-Ochiryn Luvsandorj

Khas-Ochiryn Luvsandorj (; 1910 – 16 November 1937) was a Mongolian politician. He was the Secretary of the ruling Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party from 1934 to 1936; in 1937, he was arrested on charges of counter-revolution, and was executed the following November.

Biography Khas-Ochiryn Luvsandorj was born in 1910 in Tüsheet Khan (later Shaamar District, Selenge Province). He began work in 1926 as a scribe in the local tamgyn gazar (administration), and in 1932 became chairman of the provincial committee of the Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League. In 1933, he was elected chairman of the Selenge provincial committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and, in 1934, a member of the presidium and as secretary of the party's Central Committee (October 1934 to August 1936). During his tenure, he was also editor of the publication Namyn Baiguulalt ('Party Organization'). In the autumn of 1936, he was sent to the Soviet Institute of Oriental Studies. While in Mongolia on holiday in the summer of 1937, he was arrested by the Internal Security Directorate's "special commission" on charges of counterrevolution during the Stalinist purges. He was sentenced to death and shot on 16 November 1937, and rehabilitated in 1962.