Galymzhan Zhakiyanov Politician
Galymzhan Zhakiyanov (Kazakh: Ғалымжан Жақиянов) is a Kazakh businessman and politician. He owns several companies in Kazakhstan and has served as the governor of Semipalatinsk province. He was imprisoned from 2002-2006 on trumped-up charges of abuse of office. He was born in 1963 in Eastern Kazakhstan. He graduated from Moscow Bauman Moscow State Technical University in 1986 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. G. Zhakiyanov worked for a time as a manager at a Soviet military plant. Right before the breakup of the Soviet Union, he started with other partners own business operating a coal and natural resources company in Kazakhstan.
