Place · 48.01° N · 91.64° E
Kobdo
Today KhovdХовд
Two travelers wrote about Kobdo between 1919 and 1921. Here is what each of them saw, in the order they were there.
- 1919–1920
Across Mongolian PlainsRoy Chapman Andrews
A western Mongolian frontier town and Qing administrative seat. Today it is Khovd, capital of Khovd Province.
…not only from Kalgan to Urga, but west to Uliassutai, and on to Kobdo at the very edge of the Altai Mountains.…Listen from here · chapter 15, 11:09When these stations are completed Kobdo in Mongolia, Hami in Chinese Turkestan, and Sian-fu in Shensi will see wireless shafts…Listen from here · chapter 15, 11:44 - 1920–1921
Beasts, Men and Gods
The fortress town of far-western Mongolia. The book recalls its storming and burning by the Mongols in 1912, when the Chinese garrison fell and the survivors perished in the winter mountains. Today's Khovd.
…Reds south of the Tannu Ola that they determined to work westward to Kobdo and then on to the camp on the Emil River where the Chinese authorities had interned six…Listen from here · chapter 13, 4:29…also that Communist agitators had penetrated to Kiakhta, Ulankom and Kobdo and had persuaded the Chinese authorities to surrender to the Soviet authorities all the…Listen from here · chapter 16, 6:09
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