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Choir
ℹ️Practical info — Choir
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🌤 Weather — 5 days
📍 Nearby
Sights nearby
💡 Tips
- Choir is a major stop on the Trans-Mongolian Railway; the station area is very lively.
- Visit the monumental memorial to Soviet cosmonauts on the outskirts of town.
- Look for the remains of the former Soviet military base; they shape the town's atmosphere.
- The town is small and easily explored on foot; good for a short stopover.
- Check the train schedules carefully if you plan to continue by rail.
🍽 Food
These offer the best fresh piroshki and hot milk tea for travelers.
Small dumplings in meat soup, served in the canteens around the station.
Simple but hearty dishes in the small eateries in the town center.
🛍 Shopping · 🧘 Quiet spots
A good place for snacks, drinks, and small travel essentials.
Look for Mongolian pastries (Boortsog) for your train journey.
Away from train arrival times, it's a quiet spot to observe the tracks.
The vast area around the cosmonaut memorial features plenty of space and silence.
Water temperature…
Choir lies at 1,281 metres above sea level along the Trans-Mongolian Railway and has been the capital of Mongolia's smallest province, Govisümber, since 1994. With only about 9,000 inhabitants, it is the smallest provincial capital in the country. The town grew up in the 1970s as a major Soviet military base, hosting more than 18,000 Soviet troops at its peak together with an airfield housing MiG-21 fighter squadrons. After the Soviet withdrawal in 1992 the population collapsed from 30,000 to under 10,000 and many of the apartment blocks have stood empty ever since. The town's most striking landmark is the Gürragchaa cosmonaut memorial, a 7.2-metre stele dating from the 1980s. Choir's railway station features one of the longest platforms in the world, at 320 metres. The town lies 240 kilometres southeast of Ulaanbaatar in low rolling steppe with a harshly continental climate of biting wind and severely cold winters.
- Location: Mongolia
- Nearby: Bor-Öndör (33 km)
Best time to visit & climate
The most pleasant time to visit is Jun–Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °C | -19 | -15 | -6 | 3 | 10 | 18 | 21 | 18 | 11 | 1 | -9 | -17 |
| Rain mm | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 31 | 48 | 39 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 3 |
Geography
Facts
- Bevölkerung rund 9.000 Einwohner
- Auf 1.281 Metern Höhe an der Transmongolischen Bahn
- Hauptstadt der kleinsten Provinz Govisümber seit 1994
- Sowjetischer Militärstützpunkt mit 18.000 Soldaten bis 1992
- Bevölkerung sank nach Truppenabzug von 30.000 auf 10.000
- Kosmonauten-Denkmal Gürragchaa, 7,2 Meter hoch
- Bahnsteig Choir mit 320 Metern besonders lang
- 240 Kilometer südöstlich von Ulaanbaatar
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