Mansurov Tair Aimukhametovich: one of the leaders of the EAEU

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:55

Mansurov Tair Aimukhametovich, whose biography will be described below, until recently served as the Secretary General of the EurAsEC. After the liquidation of this organization and the creation of a new body, the EAEU continued to work for the benefit of Eurasian integration in a new capacity. The Kazakh politician has been acting as a convinced and consistent supporter of integration processes between the CIS countries for many years.

Civil Engineer

Mansurov Tair Aimukhametovich was born in the city of Sarkand, Taldy-Kurgan region, in 1948. He started working at school, already at the age of sixteen he got a job as a concrete worker in the construction department of the Kazakhtansstroy trust. However, the ambitious young man was not satisfied with such an ordinary profession, and he decided to make his way up the career ladder. In 1965, he was able to get a job as an engineer in the Capital Construction Department of Almaty.

Working in the city executive committee, the UKS engineer was able to make the necessary connections and impress the management with his business qualities. Gaps in education Mansurov Tair Aimukhametovich eliminated in 1971, graduating from the Kazakh Polytechnic Institute. He successfully defended his diploma in the speci alty "civil engineer" and went to conquer new heights.

In 1972, a young and talented specialist was appointed chief engineer of the Almaatacentrostroy construction department. Here Mansurov Tair Aimukhametovich does not work for long, as soon the road to a party career opens before him. In 1973, he became the secretary of the Komsomol organization of the capital of Kazakhstan, and soon the entire Alma-Ata region.

Starting a political career

Former civil engineer worked as Komsomol leader for five years. In 1978, he graduated from the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU, which allowed him to try his hand at state building.

First, a novice party functionary is sent to a front of activity familiar to him. Mansurov Tair Aimukhametovich becomes an instructor in the construction department at the regional party committee of the Alma-Ata region.

He stands out among the other employees of the department with his rich practical experience and rapidly rises, meeting 1986 and restructuring as the head of the construction department. For a couple of years, Mansurov Tair Aimukhametovich worked as the first secretary of the Leninsky district committee of the city of Alma-Ata, after whichambitious Kazakh functionary is invited to work in Moscow.

For a short time he worked as an instructor in the Construction Department under the Central Committee of the CPSU, then returned to Kazakhstan, taking the post of second secretary of the regional committee of the Karaganda region. In 1990, Mansurov Tair Aimukhametovich returned to Moscow, where he became the head of the sector of one of the departments of the Central Committee of the CPSU. In parallel, he is making a career in the Supreme Council, having been elected as a deputy to the country's highest legislative body.

Independence away from homeland

Together with the collapse of the USSR, the party career of Mansurov Tair Aimukhametovich ends. However, he is not eager to return to Kazakhstan, preferring to defend the interests of the young republic in the capital of the Russian Federation. From the very beginning, he has proven himself to be an active supporter of the resumption of close economic ties between the former Soviet republics.

An experienced statesman, he understood that a sharp break in the existing economic and social ties between Kazakhstan and Russia would cause terrible harm to both states. So he comes to the idea of creating a fund "Kazakhstan" in Moscow, which would remind Russian politicians of the existence of the former fraternal republic.

Mansurov Tair Aimukhametovich remains a Kazakhstani even far from his homeland, and in 1994 Nursltan Nazarbayev appointed him to the position of the republic's ambassador to Russia. Thus, the tradition was laid to appoint political heavyweights as conductors of Kazakhstan's interests in the territory of the northernneighbor.

Return to Kazakhstan

Tair Aimukhametovich Mansurov stayed in diplomatic work until 2002. Since 1996, he has also held the position of Kazakhstan's envoy to Finland, torn between Moscow and Helsinki. Finally, in 2002, the former party functionary returned to his homeland. He works as an adviser to the president of the country, after which he goes to lead the Karaganda region, where he already worked as the second secretary of the regional party committee back in Soviet times.

Eurasian Economic Commission

The President of Kazakhstan has always been an ardent supporter of the resumption of close economic ties between the former Soviet republics. His vigorous activity in this direction led to the creation of a supranational body that was supposed to deal with the problems of economic integration of the countries of Eurasia.

The Eurasian Economic Community pooled the resources of Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus.

The community's noble idea was to create a single economic space for all participating countries, develop common norms and standards, gradually abolish customs restrictions, and create an EEC. Mansurov Tair Aimukhametovich was appointed Secretary General of this organization in 2007 and made a huge contribution to its development. True, the temporary status of the EurAsEC was clear from the very beginning, the main goal was the creation of the Customs Union. In 2014, the Kazakh politician left the post of Secretary General of the organization in connection with its liquidation.

Hishe continued his work at the Eurasian Economic Commission, becoming a member of the Energy and Infrastructure Collegium.