A Kyrgyz party leader at the Soviet Union's end
In April 1991, he joined the Soviet Union's final Politburo as Kyrgyzstan's representative.
Amanbayev was an agricultural specialist who rose through the Kyrgyz Communist Party's regional and central apparatus. In 1991, as the Soviet Union moved toward dissolution, he became first secretary of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan and a member of the CPSU Politburo, but both positions ended within months as the Union collapsed. He later served in the government of independent Kyrgyzstan, embodying institutional continuity between the late Soviet party apparatus and the new state.
Career Timeline
- 1966Graduated from the Kyrgyz Agricultural Institute
- 1971–1973Director of the Osh state breeding station; first secretary of the Alay district party committee
- 1981–1985Secretary of the Osh regional committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan
- 1985–1988Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan
- 1988–1991First secretary of the Issyk-Kul regional committee
- 1990–1991Chair of the Issyk-Kul regional Soviet; People's Deputy of the USSR
- 1991First secretary of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan; member of the CPSU Politburo
- 1993–1995Deputy prime minister of the Kyrgyz Republic
The Soviet Politburo
- Full member 1991.04–1991.08
served until the party ban of 1991.11