1. In infancy, Ismail Yusupov lost his mother, so he was raised by his stepmother.
18 Facts About Ismail Yusupov
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For four years Yusupov studied at the Uyghur secondary school named after A Sufi Zarvata.
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Ismail Yusupov ended up in the Alma-Ata orphanage, where he helped in preparing children for admission to technical schools.
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Two years of preparatory courses and Ismail Yusupov entered the Talgar Agricultural College, where he graduated in 1934.
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Immediately after graduation, the Ismail Yusupov was sent to the South Kazakhstan region, to the Turkestan MTS, where he worked as an agronomist, and a year later he left for Leningrad, where he studied at the higher agronomic courses for two years.
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In 1937, Ismail Yusupov returned to Turkestan, but already as a senior agronomist.
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Ismail Yusupov was transferred to Chimkent, Kazakh SSR, where he worked first as a deputy head of the South Kazakhstan regional land department, later as the head of the South Kazakhstan regional water management department.
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The Germans were in the city, and Ismail Yusupov's battalion continued the partisan war behind enemy lines.
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On 1962, Ismail Yusupov was elected to replace Dinmukhamed Kunaev as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, after Kunaev disagreed with Nikita Khrushchev's plans to incorporate some lands in Southern Kazakhstan into Uzbekistan.
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Kunaev, who served as the First Secretary of the Kazakh Communist Party for 24 years and Ismail Yusupov's successor, wrote in his memoirs, that Ismail Yusupov did not work well with many fellow party members, being at the head of the Kazakh SSR.
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Ismail Yusupov did not stay in Uralsk, being the chairman of the regional executive committee.
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Ismail Yusupov was dismissed from the post of the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan at the suggestion of Leonid Brezhnev.
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Ismail Yusupov was the member of the Central Committee of the CPSU from 1961 to 1966.
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Ismail Yusupov was the candidate member of the CPSU Central Committee from 1961 to 1966.
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Ismail Yusupov served as the deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 5th and 6th convocations.
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Ismail Yusupov was the deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR from 1938 to 1967.
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Ismail Yusupov helped establish Uyghur region within the Almaty Oblast, as well as the Uyghur National Theater.
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Ismail Yusupov died on May 17,2005, in Almaty, at the age of 91.