After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a number of independent state entities emerged, one of which organically joined the political alliance called the CIS, and the other chose the “European Development Path”.
The countries of Central Asia were also involved in this process, but the regime of government in them remained the same: a strong, consolidated power in the hands of one person. As a rule, the first secretaries of the Communist Parties acted as a manager. However, in Tajikistan a slightly different picture has developed. Kakhor Karimov, who was the ideologist of the Reds and the leader of the country, gave up power due to health problems. The successor to the 1st secretary was Rakhmon Nabiev, who had come a long way as a “party functionary” before becoming president of the Republic of Tajikistan. He was not light, on the contrary, he was thorny.
Curriculum Vitae
Rakhmon Nabiev is a native of the village Shaikhburkhon of the Khujar district of the Leninabad region. He was born in 1930 on October 5 in an ordinary peasant family.
Already at the age of sixteen, Rakhmon began his career as an accountant on the collective farm. But soon the young man realized: in order to take place in life, education is necessary. Having received a certificate of maturity, he successfully passes exams at the agricultural technical school of Leninabad. After graduation, Rakhmon Nabiyev decides to continue his studies in Tashkent and becomes a student at the Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization.
Work days
At the end of the university, a young man is employed by the chief engineer at one of the machine and tractor stations.
In the second half of the 50s, he worked as the chief engineer of the repair and technical station in the Sunzhensky district, and then became the head of this section. Rakhmon Nabiev, being a disciplined and executive employee, gains invaluable experience and after some time a young specialist is entrusted with the whole Main Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Tajik SSR.
Some time later, he begins to combine work in the department, while simultaneously fulfilling the duties of the head of the Tajikselkhoztekhnika enterprise.
The beginning of a political career and work in government agencies
In the early 60s, Rakhmon Nabiev, whose biography is of particular interest to political scientists, is actively involved in party work. Over time, he was entrusted with coordinating the work of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Republic of Tajikistan. Then he receives the position of inspector of the Central Asian Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. But after some time, he returns to his previous job and manages affairs in the Central Committee of the “Lefts”.
In the early 70's, a party functionary was promoted and invited to take a government post. Until 1973, Rakhmon Nabiev, whose photo the whole republic knew by then, was working as the Minister of Agriculture of Tajikistan. But this is not the last step in his career. For 9 years after leaving the post of minister, he leads the republican government, being the chairman of the Council of Ministers.
For a long time, Nabiev was a parliamentarian from Tajikistan in the Council of the USSR Armed Forces, was a member of the Central Auditing Commission of the CPSU.
The finest hour has struck ...
In the period from 1982 to 1985, he held the highest position in the TSSR, working as the 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU of the Republic. In his hands were concentrated all branches of government, including executive, legislative and judicial. Rakhmon Nabievich Nabiev was the full owner of Takzhikistan. He was subordinate to all officials to a single, although he did not have his own team of functionaries, which would have been devoted to him until the last. Gradually, he began to “go blind” from power and shifted the emphasis from state affairs to entertainment and revelry. Nabiev began to walk on a grand scale and even became addicted to alcohol. Naturally, rumors about the unworthy moral character of the First Secretary of the CPSU of Tajikistan very quickly reached the Kremlin, and in 1985 Rakhmon Nabievich was asked to vacate such a responsible post.
Oblivion but temporary
Naturally, the dismissal for Nabiev was a blow below the belt. He lost almost all the privileges that the party granted him, many of his associates and work colleagues turned their backs on Rakhmon Nabievich.
He decided to start all over again and got a job in the Society for the Conservation of Nature of Tajikistan, where after a while he took the post of head of the Presidium of the Central Council.
In the early 90s, Nabiev became a deputy of the republican parliament, and in the fall of 1991 became his speaker.
The president
Soon, presidential elections were held in TSSR, the victory of which was won by the former first secretary of the CPSU of the republic. But in December 1991, the "great country" collapsed.
Civil war is brewing
The independent republic of Tajikistan in 1992 stood on the edge of the abyss that could spill rivers of blood. An ideological conflict arose between several opposing forces: some wanted to continue to build a “bright future”, while others wanted to make the country a prosperous state with strong Islamic traditions. The people demanded reform, the adoption of a new Basic Law and the reinstatement of General Navjuvanov.
Nabiev fulfilled the last requirement. But people continued to grumble for power, wanting to remove all senior officials from their posts. People take to the streets and begin to participate in mass protests. But the current president, who agreed to form a coalition government, still has supporters.
Forced resignation
In September 1992, Nabiev departed for the capital's airport, trying to board a flight to Khujant to participate in the aircraft session. But in the airport building, people from the criminal environment are blocking his way. This is how Rakhmon Nabiev was taken hostage. Oppositionists asked him to write a letter of resignation. The shootout has begun. The power structures had to intervene in the situation. As a result, Rakhmon Nabiyevich fulfills the conditions of the militants and resigns as the head of the republic.
Death
The politician died at his residence on April 11, 1993. Doctors diagnosed that the cause of death was an extensive heart attack. But relatives do not agree with the official cause of death, because the medical report disappeared somewhere after a while, and on the body of Nabiyev there were signs of a struggle, and the pose in which they found the president did not match the one that was characteristic of a person who died from a heart attack.
Nabiev was married, in marriage he had two sons and a daughter.