Saken Zhasuzakov

Saken Adilkhanuly Zhasuzakov (Kazakh: Sáken Ádilhanuly Jasuzaqov / Сәкен Әділханұлы Жасұзақов) is a Kazakh politician and Colonel General in the Kazakh Ground Forces. He was Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan from September 2016 until August 2018.[1]

Saken Zhasuzakov
Director of the National Defense University
Assumed office
7 August 2018
PresidentNursultan Nazarbayev
9th Minister of Defense
In office
13 September 2016 – 7 August 2018
PresidentNursultan Nazarbayev
Preceded byImangali Tasmagambetov
Succeeded byNurlan Ermekbaev
4th Chairman of the Joint Staff Committee
In office
11 March 2010 – 13 September 2016
PresidentNursultan Nazarbayev
Preceded byMukhtar Altynbayev
Succeeded byMurat Maikeyev
Personal details
Born (1957-10-27) 27 October 1957
South Kazakhstan Region, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Military service
Allegiance Soviet Union
 Kazakhstan
Branch/service Kazakh Ground Forces
Years of service1978–present
RankColonel General
Battles/wars

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 M. V. 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 Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces. 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 13 September 2016.[4][5]

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

Education

Awards
  • USSR:
  • Kazakhstan:
    • Order of Dunk 1st Degree (2012)
    • Order of Dunk 2nd 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"
    • Medal "For Impeccable Service" 2nd and 3rd Degree
    • 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. "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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