Place · 47.74° N · 96.84° E
Uliassutai
Today UliastaiУлиастай
Six books by four travelers mention Uliassutai between 1884 and 1943. Here is what each of them saw, in the order they were there.
- 1884–1943
Under a Lucky StarRoy Chapman Andrews
A western Mongolian garrison and trading town under the Qing, on the routes toward the Altai. Today it is Uliastai, capital of Zavkhan Province.
caravan from Uliassutai laden with rich furs stopped to rest and feed their ponies.…Listen from here · chapter 19, 11:30 - 1893–1929
Larson, Duke of Mongolia
A garrison and administrative town of western Mongolia under the Qing, on the caravan road toward the Altai. Today it is Uliastai, capital of Zavkhan Province.
…In the same year the territories from Uliassutai to Kobdo requested to come under the Living Buddha’s emperorship.Listen from here · chapter 8, 43:42…build towns in the Western or Chinese sense of the word, but Urga, Uliassutai, and Kobdo are centres in this district where large numbers of Mongols pitch tents…Listen from here · chapter 12, 3:36 - 1902
Journeys in Mongolia
A western Mongolian garrison and administrative town under the Qing, on the caravan road from Kwei-hua-cheng toward Kobdo and the Siberian frontier. Today it is Uliastai, capital of Zavkhan Province.
…is Ney Elias, and his route was from Kwei-hua-cheng to Sair-usu, Uliasutai, Kobdo, and the Russian frontier at Biisk.…Listen from here · chapter 2, 1:18…depot, and owes its importance to the caravan trade with Urga, Uliasutai, and Siberia.Listen from here · chapter 3, 2:17 - 1919–1920
Across Mongolian PlainsRoy Chapman Andrews
A western Mongolian garrison and administrative town under the Qing. Today it is Uliastai, capital of Zavkhan Province.
…pelts are shipped every year from Mongolia, the finest coming from Uliassutai in the west, and were American steel traps introduced the number could be doubled.Listen from here · chapter 15, 4:34…been done for passengers, 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, 11:09 - 1920–1921
Beasts, Men and Gods
The last Chinese fortress-town of western Mongolia and the book's central stage: months of siege-like tension between Chinese commissioners, Mongol princes, White refugees and freebooting colonels play out here. Today it is Uliastai.
…the Russian telegraphs passed, that which had connected Irkutsk with Uliassutai before the days of the Bolsheviki and which the Chinese had commanded the Mongols to cut…Listen from here · chapter 23, 6:35…the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, expressing thanks for the saving of Uliassutai from a pogrom, I intended to make for the nearest station on the Chinese Eastern Railway…Listen from here · chapter 42, 11:37 - 1922–1925
On the Trail of Ancient ManRoy Chapman Andrews
A western Mongolian garrison and trading town under the Qing, a waypoint on the routes the expedition skirted toward the Altai. Today it is Uliastai, capital of Zavkhan Province.
…Yet this path goes for hundreds of miles from Urga to Uliassutai and has kept its identity through untold ages.Listen from here · chapter 8, 6:44…we were on broke through the Altai Mountains and swung north to Uliassutai and Kobdo; for several hundred miles both east and west the country was a gravel plain…Listen from here · chapter 19, 23:26
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