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Chogdongiin Togtokh (July 6, 1946- May 18 2018) was a Mongolian cameraman, and later a filmmaker. He was born in Davst Soum, Uvs Aimag (province) in 1946 He was a graduate of the cinematography department of the S.A Gerasimov All-Russian State University of Cinematography (a.k.a. VGIK) in 1972.

On his account there are many documentaries, such as Yangir (translated as Siberian Ibex 1986), which became the documentary of the year and successfully participated in film festivals in Czechoslovakia and the German Democratic Republic, as well as tapes about the Vietnam War (1978), documentaries about Cambodia and Laos (1978), and film about the most significant event in the history of the country, the joint Soviet-Mongolian flight into space (1981) and many others.

In 1996, Togtokh came to Moscow again, but this time as a special correspondent for the Mongolian National Broadcaster in Moscow and worked there for 3 years.

In 2004, Chogdongiin Togtokh completed work on his 5-episode feature film "Marshal Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal", in which he worked for 13 years. He is a screenwriter, director and cameraman of the film. To create this film, he worked in the movie archives of Mongolia, Russia and China. It is a film about the half-century history of Mongolia, about the life and work of the person who headed the Mongolian state for more than 40 years.

In 2012, Chogdongiin Togtokh completed 2 episodes of his feature-documentary film. It was a film about another former leader of Mongolia “Jambyn Batmönkh” In the spring of 2016, he wrote a book which was edited by his daughter. In this book, Togtokh describes his biography, talks about interesting facts that weren’t in the frames of his films and shares stories about his many business trips all over Mongolia, a trip to Vietnam during the Vietnam War (1978), Cambodia and Laos (1978), India (1981), and the Soviet- Mongolian joint space flight (1981) in which his film crew started making a film  in the far aimag (province) Bulgan, where the first Mongolian cosmonaut Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa was born and raised, and then to Baikonur and in Moscow.