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Dinmukhamed Kunaev

1912–1993 · 20th century

Dinmukhamed Kunaev was a Kazakh Communist leader who headed the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR from 1960 to 1962 and again from 1964 to 1986, and sat on the Soviet Politburo. A close ally of Leonid Brezhnev, he oversaw the growth of Almaty and of industry in the republic. His replacement by the Russian Gennady Kolbin in December 1986 set off the Jeltoqsan protests.

Dinmukhamed Kunaev
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Kazakh SSR

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