Bayan-Ulgii /MONTSAME/ Governor’s Offices of Bayan-Ulgii aimag and Altai soum, Tourism Federation in the aimag in collaboration with Grand Altai Travel are to organize an event ‘Winter Festival of Altai Nomads’ on February 16-17 in a place named Buhun Uul in Ulgii soum.

The event aims to boost winter tourism and to promote tradition and culture of Kazakh nation. During the festival, various activities including Eagle festival, ceremonial parade that shows nomads’ culture, traditional game of Kazakh people such as kokpar- goatskin tug of war on horseback and tenge alu- grab the money as well as ambler horse and camel racing and wrestling tournament will be held.

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A Mongolian team is competing successfully at the 15th annual International Zhautykov Olympiad in Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, being held in Almaty, Kazakhstan on January 9-15.

The team of 28 students and 8 teachers of School No.1 of Ulaanbaatar, Erkhet Erdem School and Bayankhongor aimag’s Algorith School has so far collected a total of ten medals. Specifically, they grabbed one silver medal in teachers’ contest; three gold, one silver and three bronze in mathematics; one silver in physics; and one bronze in computer science.

Some 18 countries including Russia and the US are taking part in the Olympiad.

Montsame – A public service center is to be established in Ulgii city of Bayan-Ulgii aimag with funding from the State budget. A total of MNT 7 billion will be spent on establishment of the center. The construction work will commence next spring.

Currently, in Bayan-Ulgii aimag, around ten public service providers including Departments of State Registration; Labor and Welfare Service; Audit; Education, Culture and Art; Standardization and Metrology; and Archive are working in rental offices. Thus, the establishment of a public service center will create conditions for providing citizens with prompt public service.