The growth of culture in the Mongolian People's Republic. / This country which but 2 decades ago had hundreds of monasteries and only one school, now numbers some 600 elementary and over 50 secondary schools, as well as technical and higher schools.…
The atlas legend does not differentiate between types of monastic institutions. According to the toponyms, 24 of the 74 sites in this layer are sketes (скит), 12 are hermitages (пустынь), and the rest are garden-variety monasteries. Together they…
This map can be found on page 49 of Baedeker's Handbook. This particular copy was made accessible by the Getty Research Institute and HathiTrust. Click here to read the catalog entry.
The plans in this collection are annotated and tagged in the…