Zautbek Turisbekov

Sautbek Kausbekowitsch Turisbekow (Russian Заутбек Каусбекович Турисбеков; * December 15, 1951 in Sastobe, South Kazakhstan ) is a Kazakh diplomat and since April 2012 Ambassador of Kazakhstan in Ukraine. Between 2003 and 2005 he was already Interior Minister of Kazakhstan, 2007-2009 Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan until 2012 and ambassador to Russia.

Life

Turisbekow was born on December 15, 1951 at village Sastobe in southern Kazakhstan in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1973 he graduated from the Kazakh Institute of Chemical Technology. He then worked for the Komsomol, the youth wing of the Communist Party, and various party and government bodies in South Kazakhstan. In December 1997 he was appointed Chairman of the Agency for Migration and Demography of the Republic of Kazakhstan. From January 1999 to August 2000 he was deputy head of the presidential administration.

On 12 September 2003 he was appointed by Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev to the Home Secretary. A post he held until on 14 October 2005 when he was succeeded by Baur Chan Alimowitsch Muchamedschanow as interior minister. Then he was again Chairman of the Agency for Civil Protection.

From 13 November 2007 to 14 August 2009, he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan in neighboring Uzbekistan.

From August 14, 2009 to April 25, 2012 has been Turisbekow Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Russia. Since April 2012, he is the new ambassador of Kazakhstan in Ukraine.

Sautbek Kausbekowitsch Turisbekow is married and has three children, two sons and a daughter.

Medals and Decorations

He is also an honorary citizen of South Kazakhstan.