Two statues in the town square honour local heroes. One of them, Aldanjavyn Ayush (1859–1939), was a local revolutionary hero who agitated against the Manchus to lower taxation, and the other statue is of Galdan Boshigt (1644–97), ruler of the Zuungar Mongols. Although only a blip on the pages of history, Galdan Boshigt’s military victories in Central Asia gave him brief rule over the Silk Road cities Samarkand and Bukhara.
