Nalayh

Nalaikh is linked to Ulaanbaatar by a 43-kilometer narrow-gauge railway line, built in July 1938. The line had three stations and operated 14 steam locomotives, 16 passenger carriages, 70 goods wagons, 10 platform wagons, and nine fuel tank wagons. Nalaikh now has a broad-gauge branch line (via Khonkhor) to the Trans-Mongolian Railway. The Kapitalnaya shaft went into operation in 1951, and at full capacity produced 600,000 metric tons of coal a year. Nalaikh gained city status in 1961, but later became a raion of Ulaanbaatar in 1965. It was later established as a district of Ulaanbaatar following the 1992 reorganization of administrative divisions in Mongolia. Since the closure of the coal mine in the 1990s, the district has had a high rate of unemployment.