The Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR (; ), also known as the Supreme Council, was a supreme organ of republican power of

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

, then known as the Kazakh SSR, one of the republics comprising the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

. The Supreme Soviet was the only government branch in the republic and, under the principle of

unified power Unified power is the political power principle of communist states, whereby political power, instead of being separated into different branches as Montesquieu called for, is unified, in the state's case, in the highest organ of state power. This ...

, all organs were subservient to it. The Soviet had very little power and carried out orders given by the Communist Party of Kazakhstan (CPK).

Chairman

Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR

The office Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet is the ''de facto''

head of state A head of state is the public persona of a sovereign state.#Foakes, Foakes, pp. 110–11 "

he head of state He or HE may refer to: Language * He (letter), the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads * He (pronoun), a pronoun in Modern English * He (kana), one of the Japanese kana (へ in hiragana and ヘ in katakana) * Ge (Cyrillic), a Cyrillic letter cal ...

being an embodiment of the State itself or representative of its international persona." The name given to the office of head of sta ...

of the Kazakh SSR. * Abdisamet Kazakpaev (July 17, 1938 – January 1947) * Ivan Lukyanets (January 1947 – March 20, 1947) * Daniyal Kerimbaev (March 20, 1947 – January 23, 1954) * Nurtas Undasynov (January 23, 1954 – April 19, 1955) * Zhumabek Tashenev (April 19, 1955 – January 20, 1960) * Fazyl Karibzhanov (January 20, 1960 – August 25, 1960) * Kapitolina Kryukova (August 25, 1960 – January 3, 1961) * Isagali Sharipov (January 3, 1961 – April 5, 1965) * Sabir Niyazbekov (April 5, 1965 – December 20, 1978) * Isatai Abdukarimov (December 20, 1978 – December 14, 1979) * Sattar Imashev (December 14, 1979 – February 22, 1984) * Andrei Plotnikov (February 22, 1984 – March 22, 1984) * Baiken Ashimov (March 22, 1984 – September 27, 1985) * Salamat Mukashev (September 27, 1985 – February 9, 1988) * Zakash Kamalidenov (February 9, 1988 – December 1988) * Vera Sidorova (December 1988 – March 10, 1989) * Mahtay Sagdiev (March 10, 1989 – February 22, 1990)

Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR

* Kiylybay Medeubekov (December 13, 1979 – February 22, 1990) *

Nursultan Nazarbayev Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev (born 6 July 1940) is a Kazakhstani politician who served as the first president of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019. He also held the special title of Elbasy from 2010 to 2022 and chairman of the Security Council of ...

(February 22 – April 24, 1990) * Yerik Asanbayev (April 24, 1990 – October 16, 1991)

Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet of Kazakhstan

* Serikbolsyn Abdildin (October 16, 1991 – January 28, 1993)

Convocations

* 1st convocation (1938–1946) * 2nd convocation (1947–1950) * 3rd convocation (1951–1954) * 4th convocation (1955–1959) * 5th convocation (1959–1962) * 6th convocation (1963–1966) * 7th convocation (1967–1970) * 8th convocation (1971–1974) * 9th convocation (1975–1979) * 10th convocation (1980–1984) * 11th convocation (1985–1989) * 12th convocation (1990–1993)

References

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