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TEACHER “E” RESPECTED AMONG PEOPLE social and mental life of the Buryat and the Mongols who are with the same ethnic origin. Researcher B. Sagdarjaw mentions the following about I8dorj: “... with the help of the head of Oriental Secretariat in Comintern in Irkutsk, B. Z. Shumyatski, Mongolian revolutionists began to join their destinies with Mongolia and its people. S. Buyannemekh and B. Ishdorj were working in the press council when Mongolian revolutionists published the newspaper “Mongolia’s truth” in November, 1920 in Irkutsk. Moreover, he was working as a translator for Mongolian delegates in The First Congress of Oriental Workmen in January, 1922 in Moscow, and as interpreter for Lenin...” On 20 August, 1920, the Mongolian delegates D. Bodé and X. Coibalsan was included in the Mongolian-Tibetan group in the conferences of Oriental People’s Division in the Siberian Bureau of the Central Committee of All-Union Communist (Bolshevik) Party. During this conferences, a Mongolian-Tibetan group was established and appointed E. Ren¢éino as director. Moreover, the Mongolian-Tibetan Council conference directed by E. Renéino, made the following decision on 17 November, 1920: 1. Opening a military-political school for Mongolians, and assigning B. Danchinov, and S. ISdorj to develop the school program 2. Appointing Tsyryenjapov and ISdorj to do advocacy work to enroll students. B. ISdorj had written and published a 19 chapter book in 1922 entitled Handbook of Humanity and Revolution, People’s Party and Polity Development, which was considered extremely valuable and rare book at that time because of its disclosure of political concerns such as the development of human society, politic systems and its forms, aggressive and / or freeing war, etc. B. ISdorj started to work in the Institute of Sutras and Scriptures in 1922, and worked in the education sector for the order of the school department. In the same year, during the 33" conference of the People’s Government, the resolution to establish a “Teacher training school” in the capital city was approved, which resoluted to train 20 young people, who knew the Mongolian script, for four months, and to open a primary school hall. ISdorÿ had worked in this primary school as translator until he became actively involved in the establishment of the first secondary school of the People’s Government in the capital city in 1923. He became the first principal (head) of this school. During the Lunar New Year in 1923, a training class of the secondary school was established including 40 students. The first principal (head) of this school was B. Idorj, followed by Cewegjaw Cerendorj, Byamba Rinéen, and Jamiyan who all worked as principals. In 1924, Badrax had worked as a principal of the secondary school, which provided lessons for 75 students in that very year. B. ISdorj organized numerous activities being the principal (head), for instance the development of new systems in training, improving teaching workforces, making textbooks available. Many Mongolian teachers and Buryat intellectuals including J. 445
