The Communist Party of Kazakhstan (QKP; , ) was the ruling and sole legal political party in the Kazakh SSR.Коммунистическую партию Казахстана ликвидировали по решению суда
Origin The Communist Party of Kazakhstan was founded in 1936 as the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Kazakhstan, when Kazakhstan was granted a Union Republic status within the Soviet Union. The Communist Party of Kazakhstan had been a branch of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) until the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
April 24, 1990 from Art. 6 of the Constitution of the Kazakh SSR, the provision on the monopoly of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan on power was excluded.Закон Казахской ССР от 24 апреля 1990 г. «Об учреждении поста Президента Казахской ССР и внесении изменений и дополнений в Конституцию (Основной Закон) Казахской ССР»
Post-Soviet restructuring The 18th Congress of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, held on September 7, 1991, decided to dissolve the party.Постановление Конституционного Суда РФ от 30 ноября 1992 г. N 9-П The Socialist Party was created on its basis.Компартии Казахстана дали шанс уйти красиво, и она его использовала Nursultan Nazarbayev, chairman of the party, resigned after the failure of the August putsch in Moscow.Назарбаев вышел из партии Dissatisfied members of the old Communist Party recreated the Communist Party of Kazakhstan in October 1991 at the 19th Congress of the party.
First Secretaries ChairmanTerm of officePolitical partyRefPortraitNameTook officeLeft officeTime in office 1Levon Mirzoyan23 April 193723 May 1938Communist(Bolsheviks) —Oversaw early famine relief and collectivization; arrested in 1938 during Great Purge and executed in February 1939. 2Nikolay Skvortsov23 May 193823 July 1945Communist(Bolsheviks) —Guided the republic through wartime mobilization relocating factories during World War II and post‑war reconstruction. 3Gennady Borkov23 July 194522 June 1946Communist(Bolsheviks) —Served briefly in the immediate post‑war period during demobilization; little else is documented about his short tenure. 4Zhumabay Shayakhmetov22 June 19466 February 1954Communist(Bolsheviks) —First ethnic Kazakh in the post; removed in February 1954 under Khrushchev's reorganizations amid allegations of corruption. 5Panteleimon Ponomarenko6 February 19547 May 1955Communist —Transferred from Byelorussian SSR as a transitional figure after Stalin's death; served just over a year before being reassigned. 6Leonid Brezhnev8 May 19556 March 1956Communist —Promoted from Second Secretary to lead Virgin Lands campaign and Baikonur development; recalled to Moscow in March 1956 after disappointing harvests. 7Ivan Yakovlev6 March 195626 December 1957Communist —Elevated from Second to First Secretary during the Khrushchev Thaw; oversaw de‑Stalinization measures and defense‑industry conversion. 8Nikolai Belyaev26 December 195719 January 1960Communist —Noted for advancing agricultural and economic policies; dismissed in January 1960 due to a downturn in agricultural output and the harsh suppression of the 1959 Temirtau riots. 9Dinmukhamed Kunaev19 January 196026 December 1962Communist —— 10Ismail Yusupov26 December 19627 December 1964Communist —Succeeded Kunaev amid Khrushchev's regional reshuffling; initiated the transfer of several South Kazakhstan regions to the Uzbek SSR and was later dismissed at Brezhnev's suggestion. 11Dinmukhamed Kunaev7 December 196416 December 1986Communist —After a brief hiatus (replaced in 1962), he returned to lead for over 22 years overseeing massive industrialization and former Virgin Lands efforts and was removed in December 1986 by Gorbachev, causing the Jeltoqsan protests. 12Gennady Kolbin16 December 198622 June 1989Communist —Appointed by Gorbachev as an outsider with no prior work in Kazakhstan; his imposition sparked the Jeltoqsan protests. 13Nursultan Nazarbayev22 June 198928 August 1991Communist —Last First Secretary; oversaw the exclusion of Article 6 (ending one‑party monopoly) on 24 October 1990 and the transition to the Presidency in April 1990 before office was abolished in September 1991.
See also Alma-Ata Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan Qizil Tugh
References
External links Official website of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan A military parade in 1980 in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan