Myrzakan Usurkanovich Subanov ( ky, Мырзакан Усурканович (Усуркан уулу) Субанов, translit=Myrzaqan Usurqanovich (Usurqan uulu) Subanov; born 15 October 1944) is a

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military commander who served as post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan's chairman of the State Defense Committee in 1992–1993 and first

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in 1993–1999.

Biography

Myrzakan Subanov was born in the Talas District of the

Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic The Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic (Kirghiz SSR; ky, Кыргыз Советтик Социалисттик Республикасы, Kyrgyz Sovettik Sotsialisttik Respublikasy, ky, Кыргыз ССР, Kyrgyz SSR, russian: Киргизск ...

in 1944. He graduated from the

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in 1966, the

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in 1977, and the General Staff Academy in 1984. A major-general in the

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, he served as a

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to the

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during the

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against the ''

mujihadeen ''Mujahideen'', or ''Mujahidin'' ( ar, مُجَاهِدِين, mujāhidīn), is the plural form of ''mujahid'' ( ar, مجاهد, mujāhid, strugglers or strivers or justice, right conduct, Godly rule, etc. doers of jihād), an Arabic term t ...

'' from 1987 to 1989. and led an army corps in the

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from 1989 and was named a deputy commander of the Turkestan Military District in 1991. Subanov returned to Kyrgyzstan following the

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to serve in the

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and was appointed State Defense Committee Chairman Major-General Dzhanybek Umetaliyev's first deputy in 1992. Myrzakan Sabanov succeeded Umetaliyev as head of the Defense Committee on 22 July 1993, becoming Kyrgyzstan's first

when the Defense Ministry was formed by the Akayev government as a replacement for the State Defense Committee in the same year. Subanov was promoted to

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and colonel-general during his tenure as defense minister, but was dismissed from the Defense Ministry after an August 1999 incident in which guerrillas from

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

crossed into Kyrgyzstan, occupied border villages, and seized hostages."Kyrgyz Troops Kill 10 Gunmen in Hostage Crisis"
(25 August 1999).

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, ''

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''. Retrieved 1 January 2012. Akayev's government dismissed Colonel-General Subanov over what press spokesman Kanybek Imanaliyev described as a failure to "stabilize the situation." Subanov was returned to a prominent position in the government following the Tulip Revolution that ended President Akayev's fifteenth year in power in 2005 and served as head of the national Border Service in 2005–2006. He was elected director of the Executive Committee of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's Regional Counterterrorism Structure in 2006.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Subanov, Myrzakan 1944 births Living people Government ministers of Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstani generals Soviet major generals Soviet military personnel of the Soviet–Afghan War Frunze Military Academy alumni Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union alumni Ministers of Defence of Kyrgyzstan Tashkent Higher All-Arms Command School alumni