«The Place of Our Last Dwelling Should Be Here»

Sergei P. NESTEROV

This article has a long pre-history. 31 years ago the author, a student of the humanities department of Novosibirsk State University, passed his first mid-sessionals. The idea to make acquaintance with written documents in which data of the Great Khan’s life and death could be found made him spend his winter holidays at the library. In spring of the same year, the article “Where is the grave of Chinggis Khan?” was published in Logos, a local faculty wall paper. For more than a week it attracted crowds of students. It was the first and the last “publication” of the article. In the following 16 years its versions sent to Mongolia and Japan, when opportunity offered, disappeared completely, and the one sent to Uralsky sledopyt [Ural Track-seeker] came back. Since then the author has not tried to publish the article, though tracked publications on the topic. And, according to the last ones, the mystery of Chinggis Khan’s burial has not yet been discovered…

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