Mongolia is just off russia, it is somewhat a hard country to determine its actuall placement or definition of its location because russia spans through europe and asia.(obvioussly)
The reason there would be european looking dudes in the flicks is because while mongolia and russia stand where they do, the main ethnic group would be caucasian and european looking, with russian-asians mainly only being predominant in the outskirts of russia where it borders with china, (chinese is the second language in these areas).....but yeah, digging the thread, something very unique and different about it, its like a time warp