Saken Zhasuzakov

Saken Zhasuzakov
Minister of Defense
In office
13 September 2016 – 7 August 2018
President Nursultan Nazarbayev
Preceded by Imangali Tasmagambetov
Succeeded by Nurlan Ermekbaev
Personal details
Born (1957-10-27) 27 October 1957
South Kazakhstan Region, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Military service
Allegiance  Soviet Union
 Kazakhstan
Years of service 1978-present
Rank Colonel General
Battles/wars

Saken Adilkhanovich Zhasuzakov (Kazakh: Sa’ken A’dilhanuly Jasuzaqov / Сәкен Әділханұлы Жасұзақов) is a Kazakh General and politician. He was Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan from September 2016 until August 2018.[1]

Biography

Zhasuzakov (second from left) attending a ceremony organized by the Council of the CIS Defence Ministers.

He was born in Chaldar, a village in Southern Kazakhstan in 1957.[2][3] In 1978 Zhasuzakov graduated from the Alma-Ata Higher All-Arms Command School.[2] From September 1987 to June 1990 he was a pupil of the Frunze Military Academy.[2] In July 1994 he moved to Russia to attend the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. In 1996, he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan.

In 2003, First Deputy Commander of Land Forces of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and that same year he became Commander of the Regional Command East. In April 2009, Zhasuzakov was appointed the Chief of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan. From 2013 to 2016, Zhasuzakov was the First Deputy Minister of Defence of Kazakhstan. He was appointed as Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan by Presidential Decree on September 13, 2016.[4][5]

He was replaced as defense minister on August 7, 2018 by Nurlan Ermekbaev.[6][7] He currently heads the National Defence University in Astana.[8]

Education

1978 — Alma-Ata Higher All-Arms Command School.

1990 — Military Academy named after M. V. Frunze.

1996 — Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia.

Awards

  • USSR:
    • Order "For Service to Motherland in the Armed Forces' 3rd degree (1989)
    • Medal "70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
    • medal "For faultless service" 2 and grade 3
    • Breastplate "soldiers-internationalists"
  • Kazakhstan:
    • Order of Dunk I degree (2012)
    • Order of Dunk II degree (2001)
    • Medal "10 years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
    • Medal "10 Years of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
    • Medal "10 Years of the Constitution of Kazakhstan"
    • Medal "10 years of Astana"
    • Medal "20 years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
    • Medal "20 Years of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
    • The medal "For faultless service" 2 and grade 3
    • Medal "For Strengthening Military Cooperation"
    • Medal "20 Years of Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
    • Jubilee Medal "20 years of internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
  • Russia:
  • Belarus:
    • Medal "60th Anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from Nazi invaders"
  • Kyrgyzstan:
  • Ukraine:
    • Jubilee Medal "60 years of Ukraine's liberation from Nazi invaders"
  • Mongolia:
    • Medal "50th Anniversary of the Mongolian People's Republic"
    • Medal "Military Cooperation"
  • Tajikistan:
    • Medal "5 years of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan"
    • Medal "15 Years of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Kazakh President Appoints New Defense Minister". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  2. 1 2 3 "Sagintayev Bakytzhan Abdirovich - Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan". primeminister.kz. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  3. ↑ "Правительство Республики Казахстан - Ministry of Defence". www.government.kz. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  4. ↑ "Saken Zhasuzakov appointed as Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan". primeminister.kz. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  5. ↑ "Saken Zhasuzakov named Minister of Defense". www.inform.kz (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  6. ↑ "Сакен Жасузаков получил новую должность". zakon.kz. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
  7. ↑ "Kazakh President Appoints New Defense Minister". rferl.org. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
  8. ↑ "Meeting with the leadership of Defence Ministry — Official site of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan". akorda.kz. Retrieved 2018-09-26.
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