construction was carried out under the leadership of a specially invited tibetan lama, kuntan rimpoche the participation of chinese craftsmen. the entire local population constantly participated in the construction of the temple. it was destined to stand for only about 30 years, because in the early thirties the monastery was closed, in the thirty-seventh the main temple of tsukchen was ordered to be completely demolished, but the high the glazed walls stood, the lamas who lived in the monastery were repressed, their legs were shot. at the end of the forties of the last century, all the buddhist temples of tuva were destroyed, and only a few of them remained throughout russia: vulanude in st. petersburg. almost half a century later, it was decided to restore ustu-khure. the old walls were left, and a new temple was erected not far from the destroyed one. the interior decoration of the new ustuye khuree is decorated with bronze statues of buda and a thousand cast bronze figurines about 30 cm high workshops of nepal. 30 years ago , an unusual event took place in the republic of tuva , th