Murat Maikeyev Explained

Honorific Prefix:	Lieutenant General
Murat Maikeyev
Native Name:	Murat Jáleluly Maıkeev Мұрат Жәлелұлы Майкеев
Native Name Lang:	kz
Birth Date:	9 November 1959
Birth Place:	Aktobe, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Allegiance:	Kazakhstan
Serviceyears:	1980–present
Rank:	Lieutenant General
Commands:	Chief of the General Staff
Relations:	Mukhtar Maykeyev (brother)

Murat Jaleluly Maikeyev (kk|Мұрат Жәлелұлы Майкеев, Mūrat Jälelūly Maikeev; born 9 November 1959) is a Kazakh military figure who served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 2016 to 2019.^[1]

Early life and career

He was born on 9 November 1959 in the Aktobe Region of Kazakhstan. In 1966, he went to the first grade of secondary school No. 1 in the town of Gvardeysk, Zhambyl region, and graduated in 1976. He entered the Soviet Army at age 21 and attended the Alma-Ata Higher All-Arms Command School in 1980. Between 1980 and 1990, he served as an officer in the Transbaikal Military District and the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.^[2]

Kazakh Army

In 1994, he attended the Frunze Military Academy in Russia. In September 2003, Maikeyev was appointed commander of the Airmobile Forces of the Armed Forces.^[3]

High command

In March 2010, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces. On 28 June 2014, Maikeyev graduated from the Military Academy of Belarus.^[4] On 15 September 2016, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan.^[5] He was relieved of his duties on 5 April 2019.^[6] In October 2022, he was appointed head of the Specialized Lyceum for Gifted Children "Arystan"

Awards

• Order for Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3 degrees^[7]
• Order of Valor (Kazakhstan), 2nd degree (2001)^[8]
• Order of Glory, 1st degree (2017)^[9]
• Order of Glory, 2nd degree (2012)
• Astana Medal
• Medal "10 years of Astana"
• Medal "For Contribution to the Development of International Cooperation"
• Medal "For participation in peacekeeping operations"
• Medal "10 years of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
• Medal "10 years of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
• Medal "20 years of the Armed forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
• Medal "For Impeccable Service" 2nd and 3rd degrees
• Medal "70 years of the Armed forces of the USSR"
• Medal "60 years of the liberation of the Republic of Belarus from Nazi invaders"
• Medal "5 years of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan"
• Medal "10 years of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan"
• Medal of Zhukov
• Army General Margelov Medal
• Medal "For the military cooperation of the Mongolian People’s Army and the Soviet Army"
• Medal "70 years of the creation of the Airborne Troops of the USSR"

References

1. Web site: Former Commander in Chief of Kazakhstan's ground forces, Murat Maikeyev, was earlier appointed to the post of the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces and First Deputy Defense Minister of Kazakhstan.
2. Web site: Cпециализированный лицей «Арыстан» - О лицее - Руководство . 2024-01-06 . www.lyceum-arystan.kz.
3. Web site: Каирбек Сулейменов оставался без работы только трое суток Номад 16.09.2003. www.nomad.su. 2017-07-28.
4. Web site: Военная академия Республики Беларусь. varb.mil.by. 2017-07-28.
5. Web site: Кадровые перестановки Номад 16.09.2016. www.nomad.su. 2017-07-28.
6. Web site: Мурат Майкеев освобожден от должности начальника Генштаба ВС . 4 May 2019 .
7. Web site: Указ Президента РК от 10.12.2001 № 737 . 2015-11-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170912112819/http://kazakhstan.news-city.info/docs/sistemsv/dok_oegprz/page3.htm . 2017-09-12 . dead .
8. http://www.akorda.kz/ru/events/akorda_news/akorda_other_events/uchastie-v-ceremonii-vrucheniya-gosudarstvennyh-nagrad-2 Участие в церемонии вручения государственных наград
9. http://www.nomad.su/?a=3-201205080025 В Акорде Верховный Главнокомандующий вручил военнослужащим и сотрудникам специальных служб ордена "Даңқ" 1 и 2 степени