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Nalaikh city. One of the districts of Ulaanbaatar..
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NALAIKH
Nalaikh. The poor village of Nalaikh, 35km south-east of the capital, is part of the
Ulaanbaatar autonomous municipality because it once jointly supplied the capital city with its coal. Nalaikh's coal mine has closed down, leaving the place with little purpose. There's little reason to visit except to see a Kazakh community.
Coal mining at the Nalaikh mine began in Mongolia in the 1940s with technical
and economic assistance from the former USSR. Until the 1990s, it was one of the
largest enterprises in the country's coal industry. With the development of new
coal deposits in Mongolia, the mine was closed in 1994 due to unprofitability.
Since then, most of the town's residents, who have been left unemployed, with a
population of over 30,000 people, have been forced to engage in illegal coal
mining to feed their families.
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