1. Gennady Vasilyevich Kolbin was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR from 16 December 1986 to 22 June 1989.
20 Facts About Gennady Kolbin
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From 1970 to 1975, Gennady Kolbin was appointed as Secretary and later as Second Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU.
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Gennady Kolbin then served as the Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia.
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Gennady Kolbin served the Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR from 1975 to 1984.
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Gennady Kolbin was appointed as the First Secretary of the Ulyanovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU, from 1983 to 1986.
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Gennady Kolbin served as the Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR from 1971 to 1975.
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Gennady Kolbin served as the Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1979 to 1989.
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Gennady Kolbin served as the Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1987 to 1989.
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In 1986, Gennady Kolbin was appointed as the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan.
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Gennady Kolbin replaced Dinmukhamed Kunaev, who previously served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, from 1964.
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Gennady Kolbin had not worked in the Kazakh SSR prior to his appointment.
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Gennady Kolbin was appointed by Mikhail Gorbachev in an attempt to root out corruption in the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR.
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Gennady Kolbin served as the Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR from 1987 to 1989 and member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR from 1987 to 1989.
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Gennady Kolbin's appointment resulted in violent protests in the Kazakh capital Almaty and other cities, with several thousand protesters killed and hundreds injured.
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In June 1989, Gennady Kolbin was replaced by Kazakh Nursultan Nazarbayev.
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Gennady Kolbin served as the People's Deputy of the USSR from 1989 to 1991.
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Gennady Kolbin retired from all political positions in December 1990.
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From December 1990 onwards, Gennady Kolbin was a personal pensioner of federal significance.
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On 15 January 1998, while travelling onboard the Moscow Metro to visit his daughter, Gennady Kolbin suddenly felt unwell and collapsed in the metro, and died of a heart attack.
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Gennady Kolbin was buried at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.