Turdakun Usubaliev Explained

Turdakun Usubaliev
Native Name Lang:ky
Office:First Secretary of Communist Party of Kirghizia
Termend:2 November 1985
Termstart:9 May 1961
Predecessor:Iskhak Razzakov
Successor:Absamat Masaliyev
Birth Date:6 November 1919
Birth Place:Kochkor, Turkestan ASSR, Russian SFSR (now Kyrgyzstan)
Death Place:Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
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Spouse:Guljake Niyazalievna
Children:2 sons and 1 daughter
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Turdakun Usubalievich Usubaliev (Kirghiz; Kyrgyz: Турдакун Усубалиевич Усубалиев; 6 November 1919 – 7 September 2015) was a Soviet and Kyrgyz politician who served as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kirghizia between 1961 and 1985.[1]

Biography

He was born in a peasant family in Kochkor. In 1941, he graduated from the Kyrgyz National Institute, and in 1955 the Moscow State Pedagogical University in absentia. In 1941, he was an activist of the Communist Party from 1941 to 1945, and a deputy head of department in the district committee, and the instructor of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Kirghizia. From 1945 to 1955, he was the instructor of the Central Committee of the CPSU, and from 1955 to 1956 editor of the newspaper of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic. From 1956 to 1958, he was the head of one of the departments of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kirghizia, and from 1958 to 1961, he was First Secretary of the Frunze City Committee of the Communist Party of Kirghizia. Then, from 9 May 1961 until his retirement on 2 November 1985, he was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kirghizia. In June 2008 he was a co-founder of the political movement "Great Kyrgyzstan".

Usubaliev died in Bishkek in September 2015 at the age of 95.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ушел из жизни Турдакун Усубалиев, 24 года возглавлявший Киргизскую ССР. RIA Novosti. 7 September 2015. Russian.
  2. http://www.kgembassy.org/en/novosti/turdakun-usubaliev-obituary/ Turdakun Usubaliev (Obituary)