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Bayandalai Umnugovi Mongolia

During a traditional ceremony, Buyandalai Ulambayar gallops on his horse while offering horse milk to the air with a tsatsal, a ceremonial wooden milk spoon, in Bayandalai soum, Umnugovi province, Mongolia. During the ceremony, he chants, “Tsegeend tsad,” which means, “May we have plenty of food!”

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsoghuu

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Uranzaya Jamiyansuren tends vegetables in the greenhouse at her home in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Uranzaya and her neighbor Munkhbaatar Tsogzolmaa built the greenhouse three years ago to grow food for their families’ consumption.

Photo by Myagmarsuren Battur

Dalanzadgad, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Enkh-Erdene Amartuvshin, 2, plays with a baby gazelle at her home in Dalanzadgad, a district in Mongolia’s Umnugovi province. The family rescued the fawn after a dog killed its mother.

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsoghuu

Bayandalai, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Bilguun Ariunbolor, 12, moves lambs to be castrated during a traditional ritual in Bayandalai, a district in Mongolia’s Umnugovi province.

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsoghuu

Dalanzadgad, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Sodmandakh Sodovjamts, 16, front, and Enkhtamir Batbayar, 15, swim at a new pool in Dalanzadgad, the capital of Mongolia’s Umnugovi province. At the grand opening of this first swimming pool in Umnugovi province, athletes from Ulaanbaatar city demonstrated many styles of swimming.

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsoghuu

Dalanzadgad, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Saikhansanaa Batbayar draws on old clothes with Dashnyam Erdenebadrakh, top left, and Bulgantsetseg Batsukh, bottom left, in Dalanzadgad, the capital of Mongolia’s Umnugovi province. Students organized an event called “Let’s make our clothes art!” to have a fun and productive day with friends. They took measures to prevent infection by reminding children at the event to wear face masks and distributing spare masks.

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsoghuu

Orkhon Province, Mongolia

Gantushig Uranchimeg, an 11-year-old monk-in-training, participates in a ceremony to worship ritual vases at Khutagt Lama Gandanshadivlan Monastery in Mongolia’s Orkhon province. The ceremony, known as bumba, is meant to bring blessings and wealth to worshippers.

Photo by Khorloo Khukhnohoi

Dalanzadgad, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Margad-Erdene Erdenebileg, 18, left, and Yusunkhusel Gantumur, 11, center, wear traditional garments called deels and play the morin khuur, a horsehead fiddle, with members of the Altan Mazaalai band in Dalanzadgad, the capital of Mongolia’s Umnugovi province. The band played at the grand opening of a new theater, where children disinfected their hands and wore face masks and disposable shoe covers.

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsoghuu

Murun, Khuvsgul Province, Mongolia

Otgonsuren Altan-Ochir, 17, paints cloth bags with eco-friendly paints at Tenkhleg, a department store in Murun, Khuvsgul province, Mongolia. Otgonsuren is making an effort to be more environmentally conscious by using these reusable bags.

Photo by Dolgormaa Sandagdorj

Bayandalai, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Khurbilguun Sergelen, 14, shears a sheep at his neighbor’s home in Bayan, a neighborhood in the Bayandalai soum of Mongolia’s Umnugovi province. Every June and July, herders in Mongolia shear all their sheep.

Photo by Nansalmaa Oyunchimeg

Dalanzadgad, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Budsuren Uyanga, left, 15, and Bilguun-Orshikh Dagvasambuu, 14, demonstrate taekwondo in Dalanzadgad, a soum in Mongolia’s Umnugovi province. The Federation of Olympic Taekwondo was established in Umnugovi in July this year. Adolescent athletes from Ulaanbaatar’s Nuudelchin Taekwondo Club came to Umnugovi and organized a two-day taekwondo demonstration for the launch of the Federation.

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsoghuu

Orkhon Province, Mongolia

From left, Narantsogt Gombosuren, Enkhmanlai Erdenebat and Bat-Erdene Narantsogt build a ger, or Mongolian yurt, at the Gombosuren family’s summer camp in Orkhon district, in northern Mongolia’s Bulgan province. Herder families lead nomadic lives in the countryside as they herd cattle to different seasonal camps throughout the year.

Photo by Khorloo Khukhnohoi

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Odgerel Bayasgalan, 20, tapes the walls of the sports hall at General Education School No. 11 to paint a mural about the love and protection of nature in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Mongolia closed its borders to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but local tourism increases over the summer.

Photo by Myagmarsuren Battur

Erdenet, Orkhon Province, Mongolia

Erdenetsogt Davaajav cooks mutton shashlik, a dish of skewered and grilled cubes of meat, during Naadam, a national festival in Mongolia. During the festival, people visit the Central Stadium in Erdenet, a city in northern Mongolia, to watch wrestling, archery, anklebone shooting and horse racing. People also enjoy traditional foods, such as shashlik, airag (fermented mare’s milk) and khuushuur (a meat pastry or dumpling).

Photo by Khorloo Khukhnohoi

Darkhan-Uhl, Mongolia

Battsetseg Sharavjamts waters vegetables in her greenhouse in Orkhon, a soum in Darkhan-Uul, Mongolia. Battsetseg has grown vegetables at home for five years and uses them to feed her husband and three children.

Photo by Tegshdelger Batbayar

Darkhan, Darkhan-Uhl, Mongolia

Gerelmaa Chuluun, 75, exits an underground pedestrian tunnel on her way home from Darkhan Market in Mongolia’s Darkhan-Uul province. Traffic near the market caused a number of accidents involving pedestrians, so the city built an underground tunnel to provide a safe way for pedestrians to cross the street.

Photo by Tegshdelger Batbayar

Erdenet, Orkhon Province, Mongolia

Amarbayasgalan Byambajav trims a tree into a heart shape in Erdenet, a city in Mongolia’s Orkhon province. Every summer, employees in the Department of Gardening and Horticulture reshape the trees in the city center.

Photo by Khorloo Khukhnohoi

Darkhan, Darkhan-Uhl, Mongolia

Nasanbayar Ser-Od, a public-utility employee in Darkhan-Uul province, paints the Swing Bridge in Darkhan, Mongolia. Normally, workers finish improvement projects before June 1 each year, in time for the local Mother and Children’s Day celebrations. This year, the celebration was canceled due to the coronavirus, but workers still completed the improvement projects.

Photo by Tegshdelger Batbayar

Baruun Saikhan Mountains, Mongolia

Janaga Baatar, 13, lights a candle at Gandanchoimzadlin Monastery, a temple in the Baruun Saikhan Mountains in southern Mongolia. Janaga says he has come to the monastery daily for three years to chant Buddhist teachings during his breaks from school.

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsoghuu

Bayandalai, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Dentist Chuluunchimeg Tuul treats Khuslent Bayarsaikhan, 12, in Bayandalai, a town in southern Mongolia’s Umnugovi province. There is no dentist in Bayandalai, so people usually travel 86 kilometers (53 miles) to visit a dental clinic in the province’s capital, Dalanzadgad. This year, doctors and nurses in the Healthy Dent program visited Bayandalai for four days to provide free dental treatment for children in first to fifth grade.

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsoghuu

Erdenebulgan, Arkhangai Province, Mongolia

Volunteer Gantugs Namnansuren hands a care package to Jargaltsetseg Nandintsetseg, 12, and Khurelchuluun Batsukh in Erdenebulgan, an area in northern Mongolia’s Arkhangai province. People in Need, an international nonprofit, donated packages to 350 low-income households as part of a campaign to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Photo by Odonchimeg Batsukh

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

People attend the launch of campaigns for the regular parliamentary election of the Mongolian State Great Khural (Parliament) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The election will be held on June 24, 2020, so the government of Mongolia adopted regulations for campaign activities. They include moving many activities online, cleaning and disinfecting areas where gatherings will be held, keeping a distance of at least 1.5 meters (about 5 feet) between attendees, avoiding physical touch, and wearing face masks.

Photo by Myagmarsuren Battur

Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Tsengel Tseveen, an employee at Mandalt Construction, replaces gym flooring at the Polytechnical College of Umnugovi province in southern Mongolia. Many institutions are making repairs while they’re closed due to the spread of the coronavirus.

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsoghuu

Erdenebulgan, Arkhangai Province, Mongolia

Gankhuyag Jambaninj is a teacher at Kindergarten No. 5 in Erdenebulgan, an area in northern Mongolia’s Arkhangai province. Even though the kindergarten has been closed since late January due to the coronavirus, teachers are preparing for students to return in September. “Children miss their kindergarten very much,” Gankhuyag says, “so everything should be colorful and clean when they return.”

Photo by Odonchimeg Batsukh

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