Kadyr Gafurovich Gulamov ( uz, Qodir Gʻulomov, Қодир Ғуломов, russian: Кадыр Гафурович Гуламов; born February 17, 1945) is an Uzbek politician who has served as
Minister of Defence of Uzbekistan
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. To date, he was the first and only civilian leader of an
Uzbek military department.
Biography
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He was born in Tashkent in February 1945. He is the son of the Soviet-Uzbek poet
Gʻafur Gʻulom. In 1963 he began his studies at
Tashkent State University before being sent to the
Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan
The Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan ( uz, Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi Fanlar akademiyasi, Ўзбекистон Республикаси Фанлар академияси) is the main scientific organization of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It coord ...
in 1968. In the 30 years that followed, he worked as an official in the academy, becoming the Chief Scientific Secretary in 1999. He held his first government position that same year, when he was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense and Rector of the
Academy of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan
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. In May 1999, he was drafted into the Uzbek military and by presidential decree he was promoted to the rank of
colonel
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In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, a colonel was typically in charge o ...
. He became the first civilian minister of defense of the country in 2000, as well as concurrently State Advisor to the President
Islam Karimov
Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov ( uz, Islom Abdugʻaniyevich Karimov / Ислом Абдуғаниевич Каримов, italics=no; russian: link=no, Ислам Абдуганиевич Каримов; 30 January 1938 – 2 September 2016) was t ...
. He was dismissed from this post in 2005, and has been leading researcher of the Physics-Sun Association since 2006. On 15 November 2005, three days before his dismissal, the
European Union
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issued a list of 12 top Uzbek officials who were banned from visiting EU member states for a year, a list which included Gulyamov among others. It was issued in response to the
putting down of protests in
Andijan
Andijan (sometimes spelled Andijon or Andizhan in English) ( uz, Andijon / Андижон / ئەندىجان; fa, اندیجان, ''Andijân/Andīǰān''; russian: Андижан, ''Andižan'') is a city in Uzbekistan. It is the administrative, ...
that May.
Work as defense minister
Is appointment was part of plans to "establish civilian control over military structures within the state", according to the National Security Council Secretary. Under his leadership, the defence ministry played a more administrative role, army commanders took charge of military operations. He founded the Center for Simulation and Modeling of the Armed Forces in 2004. He led Uzbek military cooperation with the
United States
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following the
September 11 attacks
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and the start of
Global War On Terror.
Scientific activity
In his scientific career, he performed a critical analysis of a number of theoretical approaches to the processes of particle production on nuclei. At the initiative of Gulyamov, the Institute of Materials Science of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan was established in 1993, and in 1995, the Uzbek scientific and educational network UZSCINET was created. In 1997 and 2010, he made a proposal to organize an International Center for Solar Energy in Tashkent. He has over 300 scientific publications, most of which are published in international journals.
Awards
* State Prize of the Uzbek SSR in the Field of Science and Technology named after
Al-Biruni
Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni (973 – after 1050) commonly known as al-Biruni, was a Khwarazmian Iranian in scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously the "founder of Indology", "Father of Co ...
(1983)
* Medal of the
Oliy Majlis
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It succeeded the Supreme Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 1995, and was unicameral until a reform implemented in January 2005 created a second chamber ...
"Mustakillik" (1992)
*
Shon-Sharaf Order II degree (2003)
References
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1945 births
Living people
Scientists from Tashkent
Soviet scientists
Defence Ministers of Uzbekistan
Politicians from Tashkent