Presidents of Russia and Mongolia laid a wreath at the Monument to Georgy Zhukov

Vladimir Putin and President of Mongolia Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh Khurelsukh UkhnaagiinPresident of Mongolia laid a wreath at the monument to Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov at the Georgy Zhukov Memorial Complex in Ulaanbaatar.

In 1939, Georgy Zhukov was awarded
the first golden star of the Hero of the Soviet Union for the operation on the Khalkhin Gol river, which resulted in the Soviet-Mongolian troops routing
combined units of the Japanese Kwantung Army. In 1969, he was awarded the title
of Hero of the Mongolian People’s Republic.
The Memorial Complex includes a museum and a monument. It was opened in 1979 to mark the 40th
anniversary of the Khalkhin Gol victory. Earlier, a house, where Georgy Zhukov
lived and worked in Mongolia in 1939–1940, occupied the current museum site.
Vladimir Putin and Ukhnaagiin
Khurelsukh conversed briefly with a Khalkhin Gol war veteran and search party
members and participants in the 6th Memory is Stronger than Time
youth expedition.