Ulaanbaatar, May 30, 2024 /MONTSAME/. During its regular session, the Cabinet made a decision to schedule some aimags’ Naadam celebrations. Bulgan aimag’s Naadam will be held on July 7-8, Gobisumber and Bayankhongor aimags’ Naadam on July 27-28, and Orkhon aimag’s and Erdenet City’s Naadam will be celebrated on August 1-2 along with the “Ilgeeltiin Ezed-50” anniversary of the "Erdenet Mining Corporation" SOE.
Also, the regional horse racing of 2024 will be merged with the Naadam celebrations of some aimags. The Governors of Gobisumber aimag, Bayannkhongor, Umnogobi, and Orkhon aimags were tasked to implement this decision
Naadam (Mongolian Naadam Festival) (Mongolian: Наадам, classical Mongolian: ᠨᠠᠭᠠᠳᠤᠮNaɣadum, [ˈnaːdəm], literally "games") is a traditional festival celebrated in Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and Tuva. The festival is also locally termed "eriin gurvan naadam" (эрийн гурван наадам), "the three games of men".
The games are Mongolian wrestling, horse racing, and archery, and are held throughout the country during midsummer. Women have started participating in the archery and girls in the horse-racing games, but not in Mongolian wrestling.
In 2010, Naadam was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO.[1][2][3]