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“SYMBOL OF THE NATIONAL SPIRIT-ZHUMABEK TASHENEV“

Zhumabek Akhmetovich Tashenev (1915-1986) was a Soviet statesman and party leader, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan. He was born in the village of Tanagul, Vishnevsky district, Akmola region. He came from the Altai–Karpyk clan of the Argyn tribe of the Middle Zhuz. In 1933, he entered the Akmola Railway Construction College, but was forced to leave his studies (two courses) due to a lack of competent personnel in the national economy. In 1955 he graduated from the technical College and the Higher Party School (Moscow). He held various positions in party and state bodies in Akmola, Karaganda and North Kazakhstan regions. From 1952 to 1955, he worked as the first secretary of the Aktobe Regional party Committee. From 1955 to 1960, he was Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR and the national Parliament. From 1960 to 1961, he was Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR. He actively opposed the project of creating a Virgin territory at the end of 1960 with the unification of 5 regions of Northern Kazakhstan, with the possible separation of the region from the Kazakh SSR. On Nikita Khrushchev‘s “recommendation“, he was removed from senior positions in the Republic. From 1961 until his retirement in 1975, he was Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the South Kazakhstan – Shymkent Regional Council. In 1962, he defended his dissertation and received a PhD in Economics. Streets in the cities of Nur–Sultan, Shymkent, and Petropavlovsk are named after Zhumabek Tashenov. Schools in the cities of Nur–Sultan, Petropavlovsk and the village of Arshaly in the Arshaly district of the Akmola region bear his name.

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