Background
Yanjmaa was born on February 15, 1893 into a poor herding family near present-day Ulaanbaatar.
Yanjmaa was born on February 15, 1893 into a poor herding family near present-day Ulaanbaatar.
When Sükhbaatar died in 1923, she adopted "Sükhbaataryn" in place of her patronymic Nemedeyen and joined the Mongolian People"s Revolutionary Party (Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party ) a year later in 1924. She was involved in the creation of Mongolia"s first trade union in 1925. From 1927 to 1930 she studied at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow.
In 1933 Yanjmaa headed the newly created women"s section of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee where she focused on developing women"s educution.
From 1940 until 1954, Yanjmaa served on the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party politburo and was Secretary of the party"s Central Committee from 1941 until 1947. Following the death of Gonchigiin Bumtsend, she became acting President of Mongolia for the transitional period, lasting from 23 September 1953 until 8 July 1954.
This made her the second woman in the role of formal head of state of a republic, after Khertek Anchimaa-Toka in the Tuvan People"s Republic.
As a member of the party Central Committee and of the Presidium of the Central Committee, she represented the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party at the Third International Conference of Communist Women (where she met Clara Zetkin and Nadezhda Krupskaya) and the Fifth World Congress of the Communist International in Moscow, both in 1924. She was a member of the Presidium of the Little Khural (the executive committee of the State Great Khural, or Parliament) from 1940 to 1950. In 1945 she was elected a member of the Women"s International Democratic Federation(WIDF)
Yanjmaa was as a member of the People"s Great Khural from 1950 to 1962.