Baiken Aeschimow

Bäiken Äschimuly Äschimow ( Kazakh Бәйкен Әшімұлы Әшімов , Russian Байкен Ашимович Ашимов , Baiken Aschimowitsch Aschimow * 10. August 1917 in the village Shabakbay, area Aqmola , Russian empire ; † 5. February 2010 in Almaty , Kazakhstan ) was a Soviet politician of the Kazakh Socialist Soviet Republic (Kazakh SSR).

biography

Aeschimow, who came from a humble background, left his home village at the age of 15 in 1932 and worked as a laborer in the metal workshop of the Petropawl railway depot ( Kazakhstan ). Then he worked as an instructor in a school. In 1940 he became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and as such was also secretary of the Communist Youth Association ( Komsomol ). During the Second World War he did his military service in the Red Army .

After the war he was first secretary of the Executive Committee of Kökschetau from 1945 to 1948 , before he was then for a short time deputy chairman of the Executive Committee of the Aqmola region . From 1948 to 1950 he was Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan (KPK) Area Committee and then worked in the area administration. In 1952 he was appointed 1st Deputy Chief of the Aqmola Regional Administration for Agriculture .

In 1955 he began studying at the Institute of Applied Zoology and Phytopathology in Leningrad and after his return to Kazakhstan in 1957 he resumed his work as 1st Deputy Head of the Regional Administration for Agriculture of Aqmola. In 1959 he was first head of the agricultural department and in the same year the second secretary of the KPK area committee in Aqmola.

Äschimow was appointed Chairman of the Executive Committee of the 1961 territory Karaganda and was appointed in this capacity from 1963 to 1964 and first secretary of the Provincial Committee of KPK. After seven years in Karagandy, he became first secretary of the KPK regional committee in the Almaty region in 1968 and held this office until 1970. During this time, he was also a graduate of the CPSU party college in Moscow in 1969 .

On May 31, 1970, Baiken Äschimow became chairman of the Council of Ministers and thus Prime Minister of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (Kazakh SSR). During the years of his activity he campaigned for the equipment of commercial enterprises, electrification , mechanization and automation of production as well as the introduction of new technologies. At the same time, he drove the development of transport, engineering, chemical industry , light industry and mechanical engineering . Although he was formally Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, the real power lay with the First Secretary of the Central Committee (ZK) of the CPK, Dinmukhamed Kunayev . On March 22, 1984, the previous secretary of the KPK Central Committee, Nursultan Nazarbayev , succeeded Aeschimov as chairman of the Council of Ministers.

Instead, Aeschimow became chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR and thus formally president of the republic. At the same time, he was also Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. On September 27, 1985, he was replaced in this office by Salamat Mukaschow .

Between 1971 and 1986 he was also a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU and a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR .

He has received several awards for his services, including the title " Hero of Socialist Work " in 1977 . In addition, he was awarded the Order of Lenin four times , the Order of the Red Banner of Labor twice, the Order of the Great Patriotic War and the Order of the Red Star twice.

On his 90th birthday in 2007, President Nazarbayev awarded him the Patriotic Order of Kazakhstan (Отан ордені), the highest order in Kazakhstan.

Web links

• SPY.KZ: "Сегодня в Алматы на 93-м году жизни скончался видный государственный и политический деаный Бенный и политический ашизниванах February 2010"
• Article Bäiken Äschimow in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D084932~2a%3D~2b%3DB%C3%A4iken%20%C3%84schimow