Editing Ulaanbaatar (section)

===Socialist era===
[[File:Yavuuhulan Garden.jpg|thumb|Green areas were increased in the city center during the communist era]]
[[File:Dzah.jpg|thumb|Outdoor market near Gandan Hill in 1972; [[State Department Store]] in the background]]

During the [[Mongolian People's Republic|socialist period]], especially following the [[World War II|Second World War]], most of the old [[ger district]]s were replaced by [[Ugsarmal bair|Soviet-style blocks of flats]], often financed by the Soviet Union. [[Urban planning]] began in the 1950s, and much of the city core today is a result of construction between 1960 and 1985.<ref>Montsame News Agency. ''Mongolia''. 2006; {{ISBN|99929-0-627-8}}, pp. 33–34.</ref>

The [[Trans-Mongolian Railway]], connecting Ulaanbaatar with Moscow and Beijing, was completed in 1956, and cinemas, theaters, museums and other modern facilities were erected. Most of the temples and monasteries of pre-socialist Khüree were destroyed following the anti-religious [[Stalinist purges in Mongolia|purges]] of the late 1930s. The Gandan monastery was reopened in 1944 when the [[Vice President of the United States|U.S. Vice President]] [[Henry A. Wallace|Henry Wallace]] asked to see a monastery during his visit to Mongolia.<ref>{{cite web|last=Otgonbaatar|first=Altaibaatar|date=6 June 2024|url=https://mongolianstore.com/us-vice-president-visits-mongolia/|title=US Vice President Visits Mongolia|website=Mongulai|access-date=18 December 2024}}</ref>