People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Turdakun Usubalievich Usubaliev Турдакун Усубалиевич Усубалиев
The builder who transformed Kirghizia from an agrarian to an industrial republic across the Khrushchev-Brezhnev era
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1919–2015
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Chinghiz Torekulovich Aitmatov Чингиз Торекулович Айтматов
Kyrgyz writer and diplomat who carved a Central Asian voice into world literature
Literature and arts · Soviet Union
1928–2008
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Boris Dmitrievich Pankin Борис Дмитриевич Панкин
The post-coup foreign minister of the collapsing Union
Diplomacy and international organization · Soviet Union
1931–
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Absamat Masaliyevich Masaliyev Абсамат Масалы уулу Масалиев
Party leader of late Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1933–2004
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Askar Akayevich Akayev Аскар Акаевич Акаев
Scientist-president who moved from reformist promise to prolonged rule
Government and administration · Kyrgyzstan state institutions
1944–
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Dzhumgalbek Beksultan uulu Amanbayev Жумгалбек Бексултан уулу Аманбаев
A Kyrgyz party leader at the Soviet Union's end
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1946–2005