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Torguud Summer Nomadic Migration, Bulgan soum, Hovd aimag, Mongolia

This is a visual trailer of a documentary film currently under production about the annual Mongolian Torguud summer nomadic migration in Bulgan soum, Khovd province in Mongolia. The Torguud embark on one of the longest nomadic movements in Mongolia, with families traveling between 250-400 kilometers to summer pastures high up in the Altai mountains. The Torguud trace their ancestry to the imperial guards of Chinggis Khaan and his descendants, and they held significant political and military power in Inner Asia from the 15th-19th centuries. In the early 1600s the Torguud migrated to the southern Volga River in Russia, and in 1771 they returned to their homeland in the Ili River Valley of present-day Xinjiang, China with their population decimated by fighting, hunger, and extreme weather. This film links the history of the Torguud with their present-day annual nomadic migration through the stories and memories of four Torguud families. It also portrays the complexity and interdependence of rural and urban livelihoods in modern Mongolia.