 Salchak Toka was a member of the Communist University of the Toilers of the East (, "Kommunisticheskiy universitet trudyashchikhsya Vostoka") in Moscow and Kyzyl.In 1929 the current head of state Donduk Kuular was removed from power and arrested by the Soviets.Meanwhile, five Tuvan graduates of the Communist University of the Toilers of the East were appointed commissars extraordinary to Tuva.