Dinmukhamed Konayev
Dinmuchamed Achmedowitsch Kunajew (Russian Динмухамед Ахмедович Кунаев; Kazakh Cyrillic Дінмұхаммед Ахмедұлы Қонаев / Dinmuchammed Achmeduly Qonajew; born December 30 1911jul / January 12 1912greg in Werny, now Almaty, .. † August 22, 1993 in Almaty ) was a communist politician in Kazakhstan and the Soviet Union.
Biography
Youth and Education
Kunajew grew up in Alma -Ata in a middle-class family. The father was engaged in agriculture and then in a commercial organization as a clerk. He visited the Almaty School No. 14 and studied at the Institute of Metallurgy in Moscow and graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1936 from the study. In 1939 he became chief engineer in a mine of Pribalhaschstroi ( Прибалхашстрой ).
Political rise
Since 1939 Kunajew was a member of the CPSU.
In the period from 1942 to 1954 he was promoted to Director of the Office of the Prime Minister of the Kazakh SSR. In the years 1942, 1951, 1955 and 1959 also the Kazakh SSR was elected to the Supreme Soviet.
From 1960 to 1962 and from 1964 to 1986, he was First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan. Under Nikita Khrushchev, he lost this party posts and he got it by Leonid Brezhnev again. The Kazakh capital Alma- Ata was favored by the Republic of head Kunajew. Under him, the city took its present form essentially and became the metropolis.
In the center of power
From 1966 to 1971 he was then member of the Political Bureau of the CPSU. In 1971, he ascended to the highest political body of the USSR, he became a full member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) and, in the period from 9 April 1971 to 28 January 1987. 1985, he still supported the election of Michael Gorbachev as General Secretary of the CPSU.
Criticism and political descent
Due to increased national trends in Kazakhstan connected with strong criticism (among others because of its human resources policy and also because of unexplained accepting money ) he was criticized by O. Miro Shin, 2nd Party Secretary of Kazakhstan and Nursultan Nazarbayev, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan. As followers of Brezhnev, he retired under Gorbachev already on 16 December 1986 and 28 January 1987 his two political offices and even corruption was indicted. Therefore, it came in Alma- Ata to bloody anti-Russian riots ( Scheltoksan riots ), the first sign of ethnic clashes in Kazakhstan.
His successor as First Secretary of Kazakhstan were from 1986 to 1989 the Russian-born Gennadi Kolbin and from 1989 Nazarbayev, who later became president of the new country.
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Honors
- The Mining Institute and a street in Almaty was named after Kunajew. There is a bust of him.
- In Taraz, a street was named after the.
- In Taldyqorghan a complex of houses and a school was named after him.
- In Tashkent, a street was named after the.
- He received the Order of Hero of Socialist Labor, eight times the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor three times.