The official opening took place one day before the presidential elections. The opening speech has been read by the former Prime Minister and the Parliament Speaker, N. Enkhbayar, who had been personally supportive to the project for more than a year. The destiny wanted him the following day to become the third President in the Mongolian history...

My sincere gratitude goes to this linguist and writer, Mr. Tangadyn Galsan, who was fighting for the idea of Rinchen' s monument when nearly no one else believed it could ever turn into reality...

(Left) The ceremony was nevertheless attended by all three presidential candidates - Mr. Enhkbayar, candidate of the ex-communist Mongolian People' s Party (first row, third from the right), Mr. Enkhsaikhan, candidate of the Democratic Party (first row, second from the right) and Mr. Enkhbat, candidate of the Democratic New Socialist Party (on the photo below with the blue "khadak").

 

(Below) When I look into the face of my father, Academician Mr. Rinchengiin Barsbold (third from the left, with grey hair), in the moment when not only the leaders of democratic movement (below) but  even the representatives of the same political movement that had made hell of lives of Rinchen and thousands of others, pay his father a tribute, I could hardly feel deeper satisfaction... Both of them, Rinchen as well as his son, have really deserved this moment.

 

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