Born: 16 November 1937 in Kokchetau Province

1954-56 -- tractor operator

1956-59 -- army service

1959-68 -- chauffeur, Komsomol committee secretary, secretary of state farm party committee

1968-70 -- instructor at Kokchetau Oblast party committee

1970-74 -- first secretary, Kokchetau Oblast Komsomol committee

1974-80 -- First secretary of regional committee of Communist Party

1980-90 -- chairman of Kokchetau Oblast committee for trade union workers in the agricultural sector

1990-97 -- chairman of Kokchetau Oblast committee of trade unions

1990-present -- member of parliament/Mazhilis from Akmolinsk Province

1998-99 -- office director in Kokchetau

2001-2004 -- first secretary of Akmolinsk provincial committee of Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan

2004-present -- first secretary of Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan