Sergey Nikolayevich Gromov (; 6 January 1959) is a Kazakh politician who served as a Deputy Chair of the

Senate of Kazakhstan The Senate of Kazakhstan ( kk, Qazaqstan Parlamentınıñ Senaty, ''Қазақстан Парламентінің Сенаты'') is the upper house of two chambers in Kazakhstan's legislature, known as the Parliament (''Parlamenti''). The Se ...

from January 2016 to August 2019.

Biography

Early life and education

Gromov was born in the village of Aksu in Almaty Region. In 1981, he graduated from the Dulaty University in

Taraz Taraz ( kz, Тараз, تاراز, translit=Taraz ; known to Europeans as Talas) is a city and the administrative center of Jambyl Region in Kazakhstan, located on the Talas (Taraz) River in the south of the country near the border with Kyrgyzs ...

with a degree in hydraulic engineering, then Almaty Institute of Political Science and Management in 1991 with a degree in political science and Aulie-Ata University in 2002 with a degree in law.

Career

From 1981, Gromov was the assistant, teacher, and Secretary of the Komsomol Committee of the Dzhambul Irrigation and Drainage and Construction Institute and then from 1983 as Head of Department of the Dzhambul Regional Committee, First Secretary of the Dzhuvalinsky District Committee of the Lenin Communist Youth Union of Kazakhstan. In 1985, he became the Secretary of the Party Committee on State Farm until 1987, when he became the Second Secretary of the Lugovsk District Party Committee. In 1991, Gromov became the Head of the Department of Foreign Economic Relations of AIC Krymskiy (Krasnodar Territory). From 1992, he worked as a General Director for production of the company Agrarian Technologies of Russia in

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. From 1993 to 1998, Gromov was the First Deputy General Director of JSC Altros and General Director of Altros-Agro (Krasnodar Territory), then from 1996 was the Director of the Representative Office of the firm Soyuz-Munay in the

Jambyl Region Jambyl or Zhambyl Region ( kk, Жамбыл облысы, translit=Jambyl oblysy; russian: Жамбылская область, Zhambylskaya oblast), formerly known as Dzhambul Region (russian: Джамбульская область, Dzhambulska ...

and senior investment manager of the firm FESA Int,. In 1998, Gromov was appointed as Äkim of the

MerkI District Merki ( kk, Меркі ауданы, ) is a district of Jambyl Region in south-eastern Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe ...

. In May 2001, he became the First Deputy Äkim of the

South Kazakhstan Region Turkistan Region (), formerly South Kazakhstan Region ( kk, Оңтүстік Қазақстан облысы, translit= Oñtüstık Qazaqstan oblysy) (russian: Южно-Казахстанская область, ') from 1992–2018 and Chimkent ...

. From January to June 2003, he served as the Director of the Department of Industry, Trade and Small Business Support for the South Kazakhstan Region until being appointed as the State Inspector of the Organizational Department of the

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. In April 2004, Gromov became the State Inspector of the Department of Organizational Control Work and Personnel Policy. On 16 February 2007, Gromov became the Head of the Central Office of

Nur Otan Amanat (), previously known as Nur Otan () until 2022, is a big tent political party in Kazakhstan. Being the largest to date, it has been the ruling party of the country from 1999, with a membership claiming to be of over 762,000 people in 2007. ...

. On 4 July 2007, he was elected as a Deputy Chairman of Nur Otan and served the post until November 2008, when he became the Secretary of the party. In September 2011, Gromov was appointed as a Deputy Minister of Defense. On 26 August 2013, he was appointed as a member of the

where he from 14 January 2016 served as a Deputy Chair until being relieved on 12 August 2019. Shortly after on 14 August 2019, Gromov was appointed as a Vice Minister of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources of Kazakhstan.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gromov, Sergey 1959 births Living people Government ministers of Kazakhstan Members of the Senate of Kazakhstan People from Almaty Region Nur Otan politicians