Vladislav Kosarev
Vladislav Borisovich Kosarev (Russian: Владислав Борисович Косарев; born 16 November 1937) is a Kazakhstani politician, member of Mazhilis, secretary of the Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan (QKHP) and the leader of the People's Communist group from 2012 to 2018.[1]
Vladislav Kosarev | |
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Kosarev in 2018 | |
Leader of the Communist People's Party in the Mazhilis | |
In office 20 January 2012 – 17 September 2018 | |
Leader | Himself |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Aiqyn Qongyrov |
Member of the Mazhilis | |
Assumed office 20 January 2012 | |
In office October 1999 – 19 September 2004 | |
Constituency | Akmola 1st |
Honorary Secretary of the Central Committee of Communist People's Party | |
Assumed office 1 June 2013 | |
Preceded by | Office established |
First Secretary of the Central Committee of Communist People's Party | |
In office 6 June 2004 – 1 June 2013 | |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Volodarskoye, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (now Saumalkol, Kazakhstan) | 16 November 1937
Political party | Communist People's Party (2004–present) |
Education | Omsk State Agrarian University Higher Party School |
Biography
Early life
Kosarev was born in the town of Volodarskoye in the Kokshetau region of the Kazakh SSR. He worked as a tractor driver on the Borovsk state farm in the Rusayevsk region of Kokshetau Oblast and then served in the Soviet army from 1956 to 1959. He graduated from the Omsk Agricultural Institute in 1968.[2]
Political career
In 1958, Kosarev joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and in 1959, he began working as the secretary of the Borovsk state farm's Komsomol (Communist Youth League) and two years later became the secretary of the Party Committee at the Michurinskiy, Volodarskiy, and Chervonnyy state farms. In 1968, he became an instructor at the Oblast Committee. He became the first secretary of the Kokshetau Oblast Komsomol in 1970 and in 1973 the first secretary of the Leninskiy regional Party Committee. In 1974, Kosarev became the first secretary of the Lenin district committee of the party from the Kokchetav region. From 1980 to 1990, he was the chairman of the Kokchetav regional committee of the agricultural workers union and then became a chairman of the Kokshetau Oblast Council of Labor Unions until 1997. From 1998 to 1999, Kosarev was the Director of the representative office of the Kazakh National Corporation of Health and Medical Insurance "Interteach" in Kokshetau.[2]
In 1999, he became the member of the Mazhilis from the 1st District of Akmola Region until 2004.
In 2004, after splitting from the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, together with T. A. Kenzhin and A. A. Kholodkov, Kosarev founded the Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan (QKHP) and was the Secretary of the Central Committee until June 2013.[3]
Since January 2012, he is the Member of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, representing QKHP and was a parliamentary leader until September 2018, when he was succeeded by Aiqyn Qongyrov.
References
- "Косарев Владислав Борисович". www.parlam.kz. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- "Background on Vladislav Kosarev". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
- Muller, Tom (2012). Political Handbook of the World 2012. Sage Publications. p. 748.