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モンゴル馬について

About the Mongol horse

モンゴルの馬に関する、またしても素晴らしい物語を読みました。
読んでいるうちに、私の目には涙が溢れ、雄大なモンゴルの馬たちが銃弾と火の地獄を駆け抜け、耳鳴りをさせている姿が目に浮かびました。
90年代初頭、友人たちと初めてドイツを訪れました。西洋の世界を初めて目にし、カルチャーショックを受けました。
そして帰国の途についた頃、友人が古いオペル車を安く手に入れました。当時、モンゴル人はドイツから古い車を運転し、ポーランドとベラルーシを経由して、モスクワからモンゴルの列車に積み込んでいました。
国境を越える際、ベラルーシのグロドノ港を経由しました。
そして首都ミンスクへと向かいました。そこで安宿を見つけて休憩しました。ところが、車が故障してしまい、近くの修理工場に修理を依頼しました。
車の修理を待っている間に、大きな「クラズ」がやって来て、運転手が降りてきて私たちの車に興味を示しました。
彼は大柄でがっしりとした体格の男で、まるでクラズの運転手のようでした。当時、ベラルーシでは西洋車は珍しかったのです。
すると、その男は私たちのところにやって来て話しかけてきました。私たちがモンゴル出身だと聞くと、とても興味を持ってくれて、どこで降りたのか尋ねました。そして「ちょっと話があるんだけど…」と言いました。私たちは彼をホテルまで案内しました。
夕方、ホテルに着いて、二人で話をしました。
「ロシア人にホテルを案内したって、本当なの？」彼は少し疑っていました。ロシア語を話す夫は「いいえ、違います。彼はいい人みたいだし…」と言いました。
彼は会話のことなど忘れて、食事をして休もうとしていたところ、ドアをノックする音がしました。
ドアを開けると、檻の中に何かを持っている大柄なロシア人男性が目に入りました。彼は言いました。
「入ってもいいですか？」
私たちは「どうぞ」と答えました。彼が入ってくると、彼はロシア人らしく私に挨拶し、檻からウォッカのボトルとたくさんの食べ物と飲み物を取り出し、テーブルに並べ始めました。
それから彼は私たちをテーブルに座るように誘い、もう一つのテーブルを開けてグラスに注いでくれました。私たちは彼に感謝し、彼が用意してくれたものを平らげました。美味しいロシア料理がたくさんありました。
すると彼はロシア語で話し始めました。
– 私はミンスクからそう遠くない村で生まれました。私たちの村はそれほど大きくなく、裕福でもありませんでしたが、村でした。戦争でかなり破壊され、生活は貧しいものでした。戦争が終わったとき、私はまだ幼い子供でした。私たちの家族はとても貧しい家庭でした。
ある時、村の集会で「戦地から来た馬を民衆に分配する。さあ、馬を選んで来い！」という布告がありました。
父は出発しました。ところが、困ったことが起こり、途中で知り合いに会って酔っ払ってしまいました。父は酒好きだったのに、かわいそうに。
残ったのは小さな黒い馬一頭だけでした。
馬を連れてきた軍司令官は、帳簿を整理して帰路に着く準備をしていたようです。
それから彼は父親を見て言った。「じゃあ、この馬をもらってこいよ…」父親はため息をつき、「こんな醜くて黒い馬を馬と呼ぶのか？…やめよう」と言った。しかし、もう一人の酋長は言った。「これはモンゴルの馬だ」「ベルリンまで来た馬だ…きっと後悔はしないだろう…」
父親は考えたが、何も持たずに出かけたら母親を叱るだろうと思い、馬を受け取った。それ以来、そのモンゴル馬は我が家の大切な一員となった。
父親はその馬に「モンゴル」という名前をつけた。「モンゴル」はとても力持ちで、春の耕作時期になると、一人で私たちの畑を耕す。私たちの畑を耕す時は、2頭のロシア馬が交互に耕すので、すぐに疲れてしまう。
しかし、「モンゴル」はどんな仕事でも一人でやり遂げる。近所の家の畑も、雇われて耕すこともある。父は止まることを知らず、雇われて家庭の畑を耕し、大金を稼いでいました。「モンゴル」は荷運びが上手で、米を満載した荷車を干し草を満載した荷車のように引くことができます。
それはロシア馬2頭でしか運べない荷です。
「モンゴル」は庭にいるのが嫌いで、すぐに外に出てしまいます。彼の馬は他のロシア馬と一緒にいることはありません。
父以外は誰も近づけません。彼に乗るのは父だけです。彼は誰にも乗ってもらいません。父は村の男たちと「モンゴル」の背中にどれだけ長く乗っていられるか、賭け事をしていました。誰も譲りませんでした。父は大金を稼いでいました。
冬になると山へ行きました。飼料もオート麦も必要ありませんでした。しかし、家庭はロシア馬の餌に大金を費やしていました。
私たちの地域にはオオカミがたくさんいました。かつて、父が馬を取りに山へ行ったとき、そばには「モンゴル」の脳天を蹴った若い狼が横たわっていました。
それ以来、「モンゴル」は大変有名になり、人々に尊敬される馬となりました…
冬になると、鎌のような姿になった野生動物が村を鎌のように歩き回ります。人々は
「見て、『モンゴル』が…に行くぞ！」と叫びました。子供たちは彼に会いに走りました。
父は「モンゴル」をとても可愛がっていました。彼が来てから私たちの生活は変わり、裕福な家庭になりました。
母はよくこう言っていました。「この小さな黒い馬は、私たちの人生を祝福するために遣わされた神様の使者なの…」
父が病気になった時、「こんな馬を育ててくれた人たちに感謝しなければならない」と言っていました。子供たちよ、どうか私の感謝を彼らに伝えてください…
私は勉強するために村を離れました。父は「モンゴル」に鞍を置き、一人で街へ連れて行きました。
何年も経ち、私は成長し、ミンスクに住むようになりました。
ある日、父から手紙を受け取りました。私の「モンゴル」が亡くなったのです。彼はやがて年老いて馬小屋で暮らすようになりました。私のかわいそうな馬は、馬小屋に立ったまま死んでしまいました。父はひどく悲しみ、酒を飲みました。そしてすぐに父は神様になったのです。「モンゴル」を追いかけた哀れな馬…と巨漢のロシア人は言い、父は黙り込みました。
彼は立ち上がり、膝に手を伸ばして古い写真を取り出しました。それは小さな黒い馬と老人の写真でした。男は言いました。「これが父から残された唯一の写真だ。さて、私は父の遺言を果たした。君たちに会い、彼の馬について話したのだ。」
君たちは私たちの「モンゴル」のように小さいながらも、とても勇敢で勇気のある人々のようですね。ドイツ製の古い車でドライブ…そして彼はグラスを掲げてこう言った。
– モンゴルの馬のために…それを育てた英雄的な人々のために…
I read another amazing story about Mongolian horses.
As I read it, my eyes filled with tears, and I could see the magnificent Mongolian horses galloping through the hell of bullets and fire, their ears ringing.
In the early 90s, I and my freinds went to Germany for the first time. It was the first time I saw the Western world and I was in a culture shock.
And when I was about to return, a friend of mine bought an old Opel car for cheap.
At that time, Mongolians used to drive their old cars from Germany, drive through Poland and Belarus, and then load them onto Mongolian trains from Moscow.
When we crossed the border, we went through the Belarusian port of Grodno.
Then we continued on to the capital, Minsk. We found a cheap inn and rested. However, our car broke down and we went to a nearby repair shop to have it repaired. While I was waiting to see my car being repaired, a large “Kraz” came in and the driver got out and was interested in our car.
He was a big, burly man. It looked like the driver of a Kraz..at that time, Western cars were rare in Belarus.
Then this man came up to us and started talking. Hearing that we were from Mongolia, he was very interested and asked where we got off. Then he said, “-I have a conversation with you..” We showed him the otel.
In the evening, we arrived at the otel and talked to each other.
-Is it right that he showed the otel to a Russian?” He was a little suspicious. My Russian-speaking husband said,
-No, he doesn’t. He seems like a nice guy..”
He forgot about the conversation and was about to eat and get ready to rest when there was a knock on the door.
When I opened the door, gaint Russian man something in a cage,
“Can I come in?”
We said, “Come in.” When he came in, the man greeted me in a Russian manner, took out a bottle of vodka from his cage and a lot of food and drink, and began to spread it on the table.
Then he invited us to sit down at the table, opened the other one and poured us a glass. We thanked him and ate what he had prepared and ate it. There were many beautiful Russian foods.
Well, then he started talking.
– I was born in a village not far from Minsk. Our village is not very big, and it is not very rich, but it was a village… it was quite destroyed by the war, and life was on the poor side. When the war ended, I was a little boy. Ours was a very poor family. Once, at the village council, an announcement was made saying, “The horses that came from the war \from the front\ are being distributed to the people, so come and choose your horses!”
My father left. But trouble came, and he met some acquaintances on the way and got drunk. My father was a man who liked to drink, poor thing. Then, after sorting out some things, he went to the Village Council in the evening. All the horses that came there had been taken away by the people. Only one small black horse remained. It seems that the military commander who brought the horses was preparing to return back sorting out his accounts.
Then he looked at his father and said, “Well, you’ll just take this horse…” His father sighed and said, “Do you call this ugly, black thing a horse?…let’s stop.” But the other chief said, “This is a Mongolian horse.” “A horse that has reached Berlin… You won’t regret getting it..”
Dad thought about it, but he took the horse, thinking that if he went empty-handed, he would scold his mother. Since then, that Mongolian horse has become an honored member of our family.
Dad gave him the name “Mongol”. “Mongol” is very strong, and when spring plowing comes, he pulls the plow our field alone. When he plows our field in front, two Russian horses alternately plow, and he gets tired very easily.
But “Mongol” will finish this work alone, regardless of the task. He will also plow the fields of neighboring families for hire. Not knowing how to stop, my father plows the fields of families with him for hire and earns a lot of money. “Mongol” is so good at carrying loads that he can pull a cart full of rice like a cart full of hay.
It is a load that only two Russian horses can carry.
“Mongol” doesn’t like to be in the yard and will go out. His will not stay with other Russian horses.
You will not let anyone near you except my father. Only my father will ride him. He will not ride anyone on your back. My father would bet with the men of the village, “How long can you stay on the back of a “Mongol”?” There was no one who would stand firm. My father made a lot of money.
In the winter, he would go to the mountains. He did not need feed or oats. However, families spent a lot of money on feeding their Russian horses.
There were a lot of wolves in our area. Once, when my father went to the mountains to get his horse, a young wolf who had kicked “Mongol” in the brain was lying next to him.
Since then, “Mongol” has become very famous and has become a horse that people respect…
In winter, a wild animal, which has become a scythe, walks through the village like a scythe. People,
-Look “Mongol” going to .” they shouted. The children ran to see him.
My father loved his “Mongol” very much. Since he came, our life has changed and we have become a wealthy family.
My mother used to say, “This little black horse is a messenger from God sent to bless our lives…”
When my father was sick, he would say, “I should thank the people who raised such a horse. You children, please convey my gratitude to them..”
I left the village to study. My father saddled his “Mongol” and took him to the city on his own.
Many years passed, and I grew up and went to live in Minsk.
One day, I received a letter from my father. My “Mongol” had passed away. He eventually grew old and was living in a stable. My poor horse had died while standing in the stable. My father was very sad and drank a lot. And soon my father became a god. The poor thing who went after his “Mongol”… said the giant Russian man, and he fell silent.
He stood up, reached into his lap and took out an old photo. It was a picture of an old man with a small black horse. The man said: – This is the only photo left from my father. Well, I fulfilled my father’s will. I met you are and told him about his horse.
You seem to be a very brave, courageous people, even though you are small like our “Mongol”. You drive around in old cars from Germany… and he raised his glass and said:
– For the Mongolian horse… for the heroic people who raised it…”

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako said;

“We were able to experience Mongolia’s rich history, culture and natural wonders first-hand,”

TOKYO, July 15, 2025 /Kyodo/. Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako have described their visit to Mongolia as “unforgettable.” The visit, which is aimed at strengthening friendly relations between the two countries and paying tribute to war victims, ended on Sunday.

“We were able to experience Mongolia’s rich history, culture and natural wonders first-hand,” the Imperial Household Agency said in a statement, noting that the visit was the first state visit by a Japanese emperor to Mongolia.

During their eight-day visit, which marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako paid tribute to Japanese citizens who died in Mongolian prison camps after the war.

After the war, the Soviet military transferred about 14,000 of the approximately 575,000 Japanese soldiers imprisoned in Siberia to Mongolia. They were employed on infrastructure projects for about two years, and more than 1,700 are believed to have died.

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako laid flowers and observed a minute of silence at a memorial complex set up by the Japanese government on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar on Tuesday. The event was the first time a Japanese emperor has paid tribute to Japanese citizens who died in internment camps.

The same day, Emperor Naruhito played the violin with the Mongolian Morin Khuur Ensemble at a dinner hosted by Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh and his wife Luvsandorji Bolortsetseg. Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako watched the opening ceremony of the Naadm, Mongolia’s largest annual festival, on Friday.

“During this visit, we have been able to gain a deeper understanding of the development of the friendly relations between our two countries, which have been steadily growing over the years,” the Emperor and Empress said, expressing their gratitude to the Mongolian government and people for their warm welcome.

Mongolia, nestled between China and Russia, established diplomatic relations with Japan in 1972. The two countries have maintained close ties since the landlocked country began its democratization and economic liberalization in 1990.

United Airlines Launches Direct Flights on Tokyo-Ulaanbaatar Route

Ulaanbaatar, May 7, 2025 /MONTSAME/ 

On May 1, 2025, the Inaugural Ceremony for United Airlines’ New Direct Flight Route from Tokyo to Ulaanbaatar was held at the Narita International Airport of Japan.

At the Ceremony, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia to Japan Bayarsaikhan Banzragch delivered remarks, noting, “This new flight will not only strengthen bilateral ties between Mongolia and Japan but also serve as a vital link in enhancing economic cooperation between Mongolia and the United States. The Government of Mongolia is prioritizing the tourism sector under the “Vision-2050” long-term development policy. Japan plays a key role as a major market in the implementation of this policy. The “Go Mongolia” Campaign is making a tangible contribution toward attracting more international visitors.”

The new direct flight will operate three times a week for a designated period. It is expected to contribute to expanding direct air connectivity between Mongolia and Japan, as well as between Mongolia and the United States, enhance mobility for travelers and further strengthen ties in business, tourism, and cultural exchange.

A direct flight between Prague and

Ulaanbaatar to start from June

11 May 2024 Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky welcomed Mongolian Foreign Minister B.Battsetseg. During the meeting, the Czech Minister and the Mongolian Minister positively assessed the bilateral relations and agreed on the need to strengthen trade and economic cooperation.

Minister Lipavsky appreciated the abolition of visa requirements for Czech tourists to Mongolia, as well as the launch of the scholarship program of the Mongolian President.

The Czech Republic is home to the largest Mongolian community in the European Union and the third largest in the world after Korea and the USA.

Minister B.Battsetseg mentioned a direct flight between Prague and Ulaanbaatar from June this year.

Ice Fishing World Cup 2024

Ice Fishing World Cup 2024 It will be held in Mongolia on March 9 and 10
Ogyi Lake, Arkhangai Province

Mongolia is now visa-free for most countries

 

The good news is that Mongolia is now visa-free for most countries, and there’s also an easy e-visa process available online. To check if you need a visa or e-visa, visit https://evisa.mn.

Don’t forget that if you have any visa-related problems, Tsogoo Travel Mongolia will be happy to help you.

Travel media company “Lonely Planet” identified Mongolia as the best country to travel to in 2024

In its annual “Best in Travel” list, the company names the top 10 countries, 10 cities, and 10 regions best to visit. However, in the list of top 10 countries for 2024, it has been reported that Mongolia has been placed first and awarded a gold medal, considering its vast territory, adventure-filled travel, and rich cultural traditions. In addition, he emphasized that Mongolia has taken measures to support tourism and opened its doors by easing visa restrictions until 2025.

To read more, visit this link:

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/best-in-travel

The 24 Best Places To Go in 2024

Mongolia has long been the destination for thrill-seeking adventure travelers – as participants in the wonderfully chaotic Mongol Rally will attest – but the country is expanding beyond that niche as its tourism board sets its sights on attracting one million tourists per year. In 2023, the country launched visa-free travel for a further 34 nationalities – bringing the total up to 61 – in a campaign that is set to run until 2025.

The launch of new luxury lodges, cultural tours, and the announcement of the country’s first-ever direct US flight, coming in 2024 to the $650-million Chinggis Khaan International Airport, further signal Mongolia’s tourism ambitions.

Following the success of the rugged but chic Three Camel Lodge, Mongolia’s luxury accommodation options are expanding with places such as Yeruu Lodge, which opened in 2023. Offbeat cultural experiences are one of the most compelling reasons to visit the country’s vast, rugged expanses, and local operator Breanna Wilson offers some of the best. After a successful season of horse trekking and the Naadam Festival – a colorful display of strength, horsemanship, and marksmanship – in 2023, Wilson is expanding her 2024 tours to include a digital nomad week, a women-only retreat in Orkhon Valley, and a three-day archery training session with Namnaa Academy, an organization that began reviving the ancient art of mounted archery in 2020. – Ali Wunderman

To read more, visit this link:

https://www.cntraveller.com/article/best-places-to-go-in-the-world-2024

‘Open Skies’ deal will see the first direct flights between the US and Mongolia in 2024

The United States (US) and Mongolian governments are set to sign an Open Skies deal that could see direct flights between the two countries commence in 2024.

The United States (US) and Mongolian governments are set to sign an Open Skies deal that could see direct flights between the two countries commence in 2024.
According to Reuters, the US has Open Skies civil aviation agreements with more than 130 countries.

In January 2023, the US and Mongolia signed a Memorandum of Consultations (MOC) finalizing an Air Transport Agreement between the two states. It allows for “unrestricted capacity and frequency of services, open route rights, a liberal charter regime, and open code-sharing opportunities”.

To read more, visit this link:

https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/united-states-mongolia-open-skies

Presidents of Mongolia and the United Arab Emirates Hold a Meeting

Ulaanbaatar, November 29, 2023 /MONTSAME/. President of Mongolia Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, who is on a working visit in the United Arab Emirates to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP 28 met with President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on November 28, 2023, in Abu-Dhabi.

During the meeting, the parties exchanged views on expanding the relations between Mongolia and the United Arab Emirates in a wide range of areas.

A Memorandum of Understanding on Visa Exemption was signed

Within the framework of the meeting of the Heads of State of the two countries, the following documents were established to strengthen the legal framework of cooperation between Mongolia and the United Arab Emirates. These include:

-Memorandum of Understanding between the Governments on the exemption from visa requirements for diplomatic, official, and ordinary passport holders;

To read more, visit this link: https://montsame.mn/en/read/332364