Sobir Kamolov

Sabir Kamalowitsch Kamalow (Russian Сабир Камалович Камалов; Uzbek Sobir Kamalovich Kamalov ;) (born 19 Apriljul / May 2 1910greg in Tashkent, .. † June 6, 1990 ) was a Soviet- Uzbek politician. From 1957 to 1959 he was First Secretary of the Uzbek SSR.

Life

Sabir Kamalow was born in 1910 in Tashkent, which was then still part of the Russian Empire. He came from a working class family and worked as construction workers and casual workers. Finally, however, he then joined the Communist Party in Soviet Uzbekistan now. From 1930 to 1936 he worked in the Komsomol, the youth wing of the CPSU. From 1933 to 1936 he was also Chairman of the Regional Committee of the Komsomol in the region of Karakalpakstan and also began to study at the Tashkent Institute of Marxism -Leninism. From 1941 to 1946 he was finally first secretary of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party in Karakalpakstan, where he had previously couple of years earlier led the Komsomol. In the hierarchy of the Communist Party Kamalow increased sequentially on and on. In 1946 he became a deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and remained there until 1962. From December 28 1957 to 15 March 1959, he was finally secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Uzbekistan, thus de facto head of government of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1959, he was, however, dismissed the initiative of Nikita Khrushchev again from this office. Then Kamalow exercised only some minor political functions in Uzbekistan and eventually died on June 6, 1990 in his native city of Tashkent.