Ismail Isakovich Isakov ( ky, Исмаил Исакович (Исак уулу) Исаков, born 11 June 1950) is a

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politician and a Lieutenant General in the

Armed Forces of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan The Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic (; Kyrǵyz Respublikasynyn Kuralduu Küctörü) is the national military of Kyrgyzstan. It was originally formed from the former Soviet forces of the Turkestan Military District stationed in newly independe ...

Early life and education

Ismail Isakov was born on 11 June 1950 in

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. In 1973 he graduated from the

Tashkent Higher All-Arms Command School The Tashkent Higher All-Arms Command School () was a military academy of the Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan. It was previously known as the Tashkent Higher Combined Arms Command School named after Vladimir Lenin (). It was one of the oldest mi ...

and served as commander of a motorized rifle platoon of the Southern Group of Forces. In 1984 he graduated from the

Frunze Military Academy The M. V. Frunze Military Academy (russian: Военная академия имени М. В. Фрунзе), or in full the Military Order of Lenin and the October Revolution, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Academy in the name of M. V. Frunze (rus ...

. From 1984 to 1995, he went from the chief of staff of the regiment to the first deputy minister of defense of the Kyrgyz Republic. He carried out tasks to strengthen the Tajik-Afghan border as part of the collective peacekeeping forces in the Republic of Tajikistan. In 1996 he studied at the Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. He received the rank of Major General.

Career

On 26 March 2005 he was made Acting Minister of Defense, and appointed

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in September 2005, serving until 26 May 2008, when he was made Secretary of the

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Isakov met with U.S. Defense Secretary

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in 2005, announcing the U.S. could continue to use the

Manas Air Base Transit Center at Manas (formerly Manas Air Base and unofficially Ganci Air Base) is a former U.S. military installation at Manas International Airport, near Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. It was primarily operated by the U.S. Air F ...

in support of the

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. On 10 November 2010 Isakov was sworn into the Supreme Council as a member of the

Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan The Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan (Russian: , ''Sotsial-demokraticheskaya partiya Kyrgyzstana''; Kyrgyz: , ''Kyrgyzstan sotsial-demokratiyalyk Partiyasy'') was a political party in Kyrgyzstan. Members formed the party on 1 October 1993, ...

(SDPK)

References

External links

Biography at Gazeta.kg

Biography at Tazar.kg
1950 births Living people Government ministers of Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstani generals Kyrgyzstani military personnel Ministers of Defence of Kyrgyzstan {{Kyrgyzstan-bio-stub Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia alumni Frunze Military Academy alumni