Muhammetnazar Gapurow
Muchamednasar Gapurowitsch Gapurow (Russian Мухамедназар Гапурович Гапуров, turkmen Muhammetnazar Gapurowiç Gapurow; . * February 15, 1922 in the oblast Tschardschou, Turkmen SSR, † 13 July 1999 Bersengi ) was 1969-1985 General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR.
Life
Gapurow was near the town Tschardschou, today Türkmenabat, born in 1922 and entered early Soviet youth organization Komsomol and later of the CPSU at. In Tschardschou he graduated at the local State Pedagogical Institute trained as a teacher. From 1941 to 1943 he fought on the side of the Red Army in World War II, but was then wounded in 1943 and returned to the Turkmen SSR, where he then began to work as a teacher. Gapurow at that time was also involved heavily in the Communist party and rose in their ranking on and on. From 1951 to 1955 he headed the Komsomol of the Turkmen SSR and later took over other important tasks of the party, until he eventually became in 1969 Secretary-General in his native republic and replaced in this office Balisch Owesow.
During his tenure, the Turkmen SSR initially experienced a major boom. The standard of living rose significantly and there were large modernization, especially in the oil and gas industry. However, towards the end of the 1970s it came through mismanagement and centralization attempts to stagnation of Turkmenistan's economic growth. Especially in the last years of his tenure flourished corruption and nepotism. After a scandal in the Bauwollindustrie Muhammetnazar Gapurow was finally removed by Mikhail Gorbachev from his post and replaced by Saparmurat Niyazov, the Turkmen dictator later.
Gapurow then distanced himself completely from politics. The late 90s, he began to write his memoirs, but died in 1999 near the village Bersengi in his dacha, before he could complete this. He was buried in Ashgabat.
Awards
- Hero of Socialist Labor (1981 )
- 5 x Order of Lenin
- 3 x Order of the Red Banner of Labor
- Decoration of the Soviet Union