Amarbayasgalant monastery. Amarbayasgalant, one of the most well known and largest monasteries of Mongolia, is located in the beautiful Iven River valley on the foot of Burenkhan Mountain. Visitors especially enjoy the magnificent art and architectural construction. The monastery was established to cherish and give respect to Zanabazar, the first Buddhist saint of Mongolia. 3730 kg of silver from the state fund were used to build this magnificently styled place for Buddha teaching and practice in honor of Zanabazar. Since then the monastery of Zanabazar was a great source of Dharma teaching and accomplishment with over six thousand novices and ordained monks who followed the rules of Lord Buddha's Vinaya. The beauty, decorations and construction of the monastery have made it one of the most magnificent architectural monuments not only in Mongolia, but in the whole Asia. In 1937-38 a fearsome repression covered Amarbayasgalant Monastery and all the highly trained knowledgeable monks were executed. Also huge numbers of rare religious relics, books, sutras, tangkas and Buddhas which had been collected for 200 years, were destroyed completely. This is how the holy temple of Amarbayasgalant became mere ruins and it was abandoned for 50 shady years.

Darkhan - Uul province. Darkhan-Uul province lies between the Khangai and Khentii mountain ranges in the Orkhon and Selenge's vast river valleys. In the 32,750 square kilometers of this province there are many places of great natural beauty. The province's territory is located 700 meters above sea level. Darkhan has a continental climate with average summertime temperatures reaching 25 to 30 Celsius and winter temperatures between minus 10 to 30 degrees Celsius. Darkhan has over 260 sunny days per year.
Darkhan was built as the foundation for Mongolia's major industries, particularly construction materials. Beginning in 1962, Mongolian and Soviet workers started the construction of Darkhan's first industrial facilities. The development of these industrial facilities was made possible through technical and financial assistance from various former socialist countries such as the Soviet Union, Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.