Sereeter
Basic information
Interviewee ID: 990163
Name: Sereeter
Parent's name: Jambal
Ovog: Zalaat
Sex: m
Year of Birth: 1937
Ethnicity: Zahchin
Additional Information
Education: incomplete secondary
Notes on education: This most likely means 7 years of schooling.
Work: retired
Belief: none
Born in: Manhan sum, Hovd aimag
Lives in: Bayanzürh sum (or part of UB), Ulaanbaatar aimag
Mother's profession: herder
Father's profession: herder
Themes for this interview are:
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work
collectivization
cultural campaigns
foreign relations
childhood
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herder's life before collectivization
childhood
schoolchildren's life
private life
collectivization
collective member
work - labor
boss - worker relations
cultural campaigns
privatization
men and women
industrialization
foreign relations
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Summary of Interview 090319A with Sereeter
J. Sereeter was born in 1937 in Manhan sum of Hovd. He quit school from the seventh grade and became a negdel member. He assisted in the negdel’s work going haymaking and making fodder. He then was an assistant worker in a factory and in 1957 at the age of 20 he went to serve the army. After demobilization he worked at the Nalaih mine and the Hovd construction unit. In 1962 he went to Ulaanbaatar. He worked as a storekeeper of the vehicles spare parts in the city and from 1976 he had worked in the tourism sector /in Ömnögovi, Terelj, Hovd/ and retired in 1992.
In the beginning of the interview he briefly mentioned about his childhood and the time when he attended school. He talked about his life. The collectivization movement began in 1953 and after collectivization the collective’s members’ life improved. He mentioned it was a wrong thing to privatize the collectives and the state farms. He talked in detail about the process of becoming a collective member and about the life and work of the collective members.
He also talked about working with foreign tourists beginning from 1976. He used to hunt argali, deer in Altai and argali, wild goat, Mongolian antelope, deer and boar in Ömnögovi with the foreign hunters. At that time the male wild sheep hunting cost 25000$, deer – 2000$, the wild goat – 15000$. He also mentioned briefly about the people in authority during the socialist period, belief and repressions. He also mentioned about the cultural campaigns and privatization. He concluded that the ‘ails’ who lived in the apartments privatized their apartments and the collective members got their cattle and the rest were left empty handed.
At the end of the interview he briefly talked about women, the work-life of the socialist era people, the attitude towards work and industrialization. He mentioned about visiting Russia, the Democratic Republic of Korea, Turkey and China. He mentioned that the Democratic Korea had good discipline and the people showed great respect. Also, in the socialist period we didn’t import consumer goods from places other than Russia. He mentioned about Filatova [Tsedenbal’s Russian wife] being accused of ‘importing things from abroad without approval’ when she brought some beds for the Ulaanbaatar hotel from Finland.
