Kanapin, Amir Kanapinovich

Amir Kanapinovich Kanapin was born on December 31, 1913 in the village of Alpys u Kuttuk of the Kostanay region (now the Altynsarinsky district of the Kostanay region of Kazakhstan ). He early lost his father and from 8 years old was brought up in the Kustanai children's commune. In 1930 he entered the Kustanai Institute of Education, which he graduated in 1932.

From 1932 to 1935 he worked as a teacher of social sciences at the Oirot collective farm institute in Michurinsk, Oirot (Gorno-Altai) autonomous region.

In 1935 he entered, and in 1938 he graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov . At the university, he met his future wife, who studied at the Faculty of Biology.

In November 1938 he was appointed head of the department of secondary schools of the People's Commissariat of Education of the Kazakh SSR, from August 1940 - deputy commissar of education of the Kazakh SSR.

Since January 1942, he worked as the executive editor of the republican newspaper Socialistik Kazakhstan , and in November this year he was appointed secretary for the promotion of the Karaganda regional committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, where he worked until 1945.

In July 1945, A.K. Kanapin was elected first secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Kazakhstan, he was also a member of the Central Committee of the Komsomol . He was in this post for six years, after which he was elected first secretary of the Alma-Ata Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan

Since February 1954, A.K. Kanapin - Deputy Director of the Kazakh State Women's Pedagogical Institute . In 1953 he was awarded the degree of candidate of historical sciences. In December 1955, he headed the Ministry of Culture of the Kazakh SSR. As part of the Soviet delegation, he took part in the world exhibition in Brussels in 1958.

From 1962 until the end of his life, A.K. Kanapin headed the Department of History of the CPSU of the Alma-Ata Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages . In 1965, after successfully defending a dissertation, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences and the title of professor. He has published over 200 scientific papers and articles, including 6 monographs.

A.K. Kanapin was awarded orders and medals of the USSR, diplomas of the Supreme Council of the Kazakh SSR.

• 1946-1951: member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan
• 1946-1948: candidate member of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan
• 1949-1951: member of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan
• 1956-1963: member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan
• 1947-1963: deputy of the Supreme Council of the Kazakh SSR (2, 3, 4, 5 convocations)
• 1946-1954: deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (2nd and 3rd convocations)

• Biobliography of social scientists of Kazakhstan. - Alma-Ata: Science, 1986.
• The Central Committee of the CPSU, CPSU (b), RCP (b), RSDLP (b): Historical and Biographical Reference / Comp. Yu.V. Goryachev. - M., 2005.
• Kanapin Amir // “Calendar of dates and events of the Kostanay region”, Kostanai Regional Universal Scientific Library named after L. N. Tolstoy, Information and Bibliographic Department, 2010, p. 68 - 69
• Kazakhstanskaya Pravda , January 23, 1988
• Amir Kanapin - Minister of High Culture