Sultan Ibraim uulu Ibraimov was a Soviet politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic from 22 December 1978 until his assassination in 1980.
11 Facts About Sultan Ibraimov
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From 1961 to 1966, Sultan Ibraimov was minister of Land Reclamation and Water Management in the government of Bolot Mambetov.
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In January 1968, Sultan Ibraimov was appointed as First Secretary of the Osh Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Kirghizia.
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Sultan Ibraimov was known for his closeness to the people, frequently travelling through Osh region and speaking to farmers, asking about their current conditions.
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On 25 August 1978, Sultan Ibraimov was promoted to Chairman of the Presidium of the Kirghiz Supreme Soviet.
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Sultan Ibraimov made himself known at the national level as a maverick within the party, on one occasion openly criticising Internal Affairs Minister Nikolai Shchelokov during a meeting of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow, while General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev was in attendance.
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Sultan Ibraimov was 53 years old at the time of his death.
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The events of Sultan Ibraimov's assassination were quickly established; first, Sultan Ibraimov's personal driver, who had been sleeping on the first floor and had seen the intruder, had been shot.
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Sultan Ibraimov was later found, having been hanged by a scarf, at a train station in Chapayevsk in the Russian SFSR.
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The assassin was not known to have any personal relations to Sultan Ibraimov, but was instead suspected of being a Russian ethnonationalist due to writings in his notebook which professed violently anti-Kyrgyz views.
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Sultan Ibraimov's children have continued to serve in the Kyrgyz political scene.