Tasmagambetov, Imangali Nurgalievich

By nationality - Kazakh . The interest in the natural sciences that awakened in his early youth influenced the choice of a future profession. Comes from the subgenus Zhappas of the genus Bayula the Younger Zhuz. ^[3]

In 1979, Imangali Tasmagambetov graduated from the Natural Geography Department of West Kazakhstan State University named after M. Utemisov. (WKSU) " (ex. Ural Pedagogical Institute named after A.S. Pushkin) " with a degree in "teacher of geography and biology."

• PhD in Philosophy. The topic of the candidate dissertation is “Worldview Aspects of Environmental Issues”. ( 1990 )
• Doctor of Political Science. The topic of his doctoral dissertation is "Social policy in transit political systems." ( 1997 )

He began his career in 1973 as a coach of the children's and youth sports school in the village of Makhambet in the Guryev region. In 1979, he worked as a teacher of geography and biology of the Makhambet secondary school of the Guryev region.

He was able to demonstrate his active position in socio-political life by working in senior positions - the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Young Communist League of Kazakhstan ( 1989 ) and the chairman of the State Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Youth Affairs ( 1991 ).

From 1993-1995, Imangali Tasmagambetov worked as an assistant to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

From 1995-1997 - Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Since 1997 - Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

From 1997-1998, he was the Deputy Head of the Presidential Executive Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the head of the organizational and control department of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

From 1998-1999 - First Aide to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Since 1999 - Akim of Atyrau region .

Since December 2000 - Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

From 2002-2003 - Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Since 2003 - State Secretary of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

In 2004, he was appointed head of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan .

From December 2004 to April 2008 - akim of Almaty .

From April 2008 to October 2014 - Akim of Astana .

Since October 22, 2008 - Chairman of the Astana city branch of the NDP "Nur Otan" .

October 22, 2014 appointed - Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan ^[4] .

Since September 13, 2016 - Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan ^[5] .

On February 3, 2017, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation . On March 16, 2017, he presented his credentials to President of Russia Vladimir Putin ^{[6] [7]} .

Social work

I. Tasmagambetov is not indifferent to history, archeology and ethnography.

Under the auspices of UNESCO, he held anniversaries of outstanding figures of Kazakh culture and science, which were included in the calendar of memorable dates of mankind. The 150th anniversary of Abay Kunanbaev and Zhambyl Zhabayev, the centenary of Mukhtar Auezov, Kanysh Satpayev, Gabit Musrepov and Alkey Margulan.

His projects are international cultural expeditions. He is also the author of the books “Socio-Political Renewal of Kazakhstan: Trends and Priorities”, “Explanatory Dictionary of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan”, “Products of Central Asian Zerg Masters”, “From Beijing to Astana: The History of Transfers of Capitals”, “Centaurs of the Great Steppe” and etc. By the way, the latter won the “Grand Prix” of the Second International Competition “The Art of the Book”.

He is the chairman of the public council for the implementation of the state program "Cultural Heritage" for 2004 - 2006 , the chairman of the National Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan for UNESCO . Chairman of the Public Council for the implementation of the state program "Cultural Heritage" for 2004-2006. A public council is formed from scientists and culture, literature and art, public figures, as well as representatives of government bodies and cultural institutions. The main task of the Public Council is to implement the state program “Cultural Heritage” for 2004-2006 in the areas of: restoration of historical, cultural, architectural and archaeological monuments of national history, creating a unified system for studying the cultural heritage of the Kazakh people, developing a series of publications of monuments of national and world scientific thoughts, culture and literature;

Chairman of the National Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan for UNESCO. Kazakhstan became a member of UNESCO on May 22, 1992.

In 1993, the National Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan for UNESCO was established at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1993 to April 2014, the Chairman of the National Commission was I.N. Tasmagambetov. Since April 11, 2014, the National Commission is headed by the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Kazakhstan A.Mukhamediuly.

According to the decision of the Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova on the recognition of the significant contribution of the Akim of Astana I. Tasmagambetov to strengthening relations between UNESCO and Kazakhstan, as well as preserving the heritage of the Great Silk Road, the ceremony of awarding the ex-Chairman of the National Commission with the Organization’s highest award - a medal The Silk Road.

The UNESCO Silk Road Medal is currently the Organization’s only silver medal (all other medals are made of bronze). This medal has not been awarded for the past 20 years.

I.N. Tasmagambetov headed the National Commission for the past 18 years (with a short break).

In addition, I. Tasmagambetov is the organizer of a number of international cultural expeditions to Mongolia, Western Kazakhstan and the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation (“The Caspian: oil and culture”), etc. One of them (2000) resulted in the return of a copy of the ancient Turkic monument from Mongolia to Kazakhstan monumental writing on the stone Kul-Tegin.

Honorary President of the Federation of Bullet Shooting of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Chairman of the Board of the International Academician A. Kh. Margulan International Foundation, member of the editorial board “Compositions of A. Kh. Margulan in 14 volumes”, chairman of the editorial board of the monthly information-analytical bulletin “Sayasat Politika”, member of the editorial board of the quarterly scientific journal “ Eurasian community. ”

Being the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan in October 2016, Imangali Tasmagambetov held a visiting meeting on the preservation of the medieval settlement of Talhiz ( Talhiz settlement is one of 33 medieval settlements of the Great Silk Road located on the territory of modern Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and China. In 2014, Talhiz was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List). Inconsistency of actions of state bodies led to organizational and technical errors that could cause the object to be excluded from the World Heritage List. I. Tasmagambetov instructed to stop all types of construction work on the territory of the Talkhiz settlement; akimat of Almaty region to design and implement the construction of a new bypass road outside the security zone; to restore the terrain, in particular, to fill up the foundation pit dug for laying the roadbed.

Father - Tasmagambetov Nurgali ( 1926 - 1997 ). Mother - Kokanova Dilda Mataevna (born in 1930 ).

Wife - Bekkulova Klara Daumovna (b. 1957 ), by profession - a teacher. My wife and I met in the first year at the university, and already in the fifth year we got married.

Daughters - Asel (born 1979 ) by education - a lawyer. Founder of the Sabi charity foundation, a public figure. Develops support programs for gifted children, people with disabilities. The youngest daughter is Sophia (born 1983 ), artist, student of Pavel Dragunov. She graduated from the Academy of Arts. T. Zhurgenova and the London College of Art. By profession, production designer.

Son - Nursultan (born 1994 ).

Grandchildren - Dinmukhammed (born in 2000 ) and Nuruddin (born in 2005 ).

Son-in-law, husband of Asel's eldest daughter - Rakishev Kenes Khamitovich (07/14/1979), businessman.

Sister - Nursulu (born in 1950), candidate of medical sciences, worked as the head of the sanitary-epidemiological surveillance department, the director of the health department of the South Kazakhstan region. Her husband is Baykharashev Ryskulbek Sarpekovich (1953-2007), a doctor, a former head of the Department of the Control Committee for the provision of medical services of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the South Kazakhstan region. Their son Yelnar is the head of TENGRI INVESTMENT GROUP LLP, in 2005 he was elected to the board of directors of Vyborg Shipyard JSC ^[8]

Brother - Kurmangali (born 1959), colonel of the customs service, worked as head of the customs control departments in Atyrau and Aktobe regions. Since November 2014 - Deputy Head of the Department of State Revenues for the Mangistau Region ^[9] . His son Ilyas (born 1989) has been the general director of Aktobe Oil Refining LLP since 2014 ^[10] .

Sister - Rysty (b. 1964), Deputy General Director for Economics and Finance of Embamunaigas JSC.

He is the author of books:

• “Socio-political renewal of Kazakhstan: trends and priorities” ( 1996 ),
• “Kazakhstan: the evolution of the state and society” ( 1996 , et al.),
• “Explanatory Dictionary of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan” ( 1996 , in co-authorship),
• “Social Policy and Political Transformation” ( 1997 ),
• “Products of Master-Zergers of Central Asia” ( 1997 ),
• “100 years of the oil and gas industry of Kazakhstan (history and modernity)” ( 1999 , et al.),
• “From Beijing to Astana: A History of Transfers of Capitals” ( 2001 , et al.),
• "Shed" ( 2002 , et al.),
• Kulpytas ( 2002 ),
• "Centaurs of the Great Steppe" ( 2005 ).

The author of a number of scientific works and articles on the problems of socio-economic development and political science:

• “Education reform - a strategic course for the renewal of Kazakhstani society” ( 1995 , 1997 );
• “Kazakhstan - the evolution of the state and society” ( 1996 );
• “Socio-political renewal of Kazakhstan: trends and priorities” ( 1996 );
• “Health and healthcare of Kazakhstan: trends and priorities” ( 1996 );
• “Health and healthcare of Kazakhstan: 1965-1995” ( 1996 );
• “Introduction to the medical economy” ( 1996 );
• “Political Transformation and the Transit Problem of Society” ( 1997 );
• "The policy of social dependency and the state crisis",
• "The essence and typology of social policy" ( 1997 );
• “The results of the reform of the social sphere in 1996 and the main priorities and tasks of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 1997” ( 1997 );
• “The relationship of the political and social aspects of the transformation of society” ( 1997 );
• “Strategy for the development of the social sphere with limited resources" ( 1997 );
• "Kazakhstan Political Science Encyclopedia" ( 1998 );
• editor-in-chief and member of the authors of the collection “The First Persons of the State: Political Portraits from the Point of View of History and the Present” ( 1998 );
• “Financial problems of development in the Atyrau region” ( 1999 ).

Religious views: "Not superstitious, but not atheist."

The ideal politician is Mustafa Shokai , Francois Mitterrand .

Hobbies - “Deeply interested in the problems of history, ethnography and archeology of Kazakhstan, is fond of collecting objects of applied art of the peoples of Central Asia.”

Literary addictions - history, ethnography, archeology.

• Order of Parasat ^[11] (1998)
• Order of the "First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev" (2004) ^[12]
• Medal “10 years of Astana” ^[13] (2008)
• Order of Barys 2 degrees (2010) ^{[11] [14]}
• Order of Friendship ^[11] (December 12, 2004, Russian Federation ) - for a great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan ^[15]
• Order of the Holy Right Prince Daniel of Moscow ^[11] ( ROC )
• Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov II degree (ROC, 2010) ^[16]
• Anniversary medal “20 years of independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan” (December 14, 2011) ^[17]
• Order of Glory and Honor II degree (ROC, 2012) ^{[11] [18]}
• numerous medals.
• 2016 State Prize of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of literature and art ^[19]
• Exclusive Award for Outstanding Leadership in Tobacco Control ( WHO , 2010 ) ^[20]
• The Tree of Friendship Medal (IPA CIS, 2003) ^[21]