The permanent president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, loves frequent castling in power circles. This helps him maintain a balance of power and avoid the emergence of groups united around influential politicians. One of these presidential administrators, constantly moving from post to post, is Dzhaksybekov Adilbek Ryskeldinovich, whose biography will be described below. During his long political career, he managed to be the mayor of Astana, the head of the presidential administration, the minister of defense, the minister of industry, and the ambassador of Kazakhstan to Russia.
Cinematographer and businessman
The current head of the presidential administration was born in Kustanai region in 1954. The biography of Adilbek Ryskeldinovich Dzhaksybekov is quite interesting for the Kazakh politician. He is the son of the head of the Akmola cinema department, later became the son-in-law of the party’s regional committee responsible for the ideological work.
In 1982, Adilbek Dzhaksybekov graduated from the VGIK Faculty of Economics in Moscow, and later underwent retraining at the prestigious Plekhanov Institute of National Economy.
Returning to his homeland, he began to work in the Goskino of the Kazakh SSR, later he realized the enormous prospects of work in the departments of material and technical supply and began to work in this area. By the beginning of perestroika, Adilbek Dzhaksybekov had already run Tselinogradsnab, a reputable office responsible for supplying goods to the whole region.
In 1988, he was one of the first to take advantage of the newly emerging economic freedom and organized the Tsesna cooperative on the basis of the former Tselinogradsnab.
Subsequently, after Kazakhstan gained independence, a small company grew into a huge corporation, which included a grain holding, a bank, and food industry enterprises.
The beginning of a political career
By 1995, a successful businessman Adilbek Ryskeldinovich Dzhaksybekov realized the need to invest money in power in order to successfully continue his business.
His first step in politics was the election to the parliament of Kazakhstan in 1995. Around the same time, the president of the country had the idea of moving the capital of the state from Almaty to Astana, which it was decided to build on the site of Akmola.
The head of the Akmola region at that time was Andrei Brown. For the sake of such a large-scale project as the transfer of the capital, it was decided to create the position of another deputy governor. Adilbek Dzhaksybekov, closely associated with the Akmola region, became them.
Knowing the local specifics well, he took upon himself all the organizational issues regarding the relocation of state authorities from Almaty and showed himself well in this work. Then Adilbek Dzhaksybekov appeared in full view of Nursultan Nazarbayev, who remembered the energetic and young administrator. In 1997, after the capital moved to Akmola, which was renamed Astana, VGIK graduate became the first mayor of the new city.
In the upper echelons of power
Adilbek Dzhaksybekov led Astana for quite some time, having been at the post of mayor for almost seven years. During this time, the provincial center of the Akmola region has turned into a modern, rapidly developing city and has become a real showcase of Kazakhstan.
In 2003, Adilbek Dzhaksybekov, having proved himself well as mayor, was appointed Minister of Industry and Trade. In his new position, he was supposed to deal with issues of industrialization and innovative development of Kazakhstan, for which a comprehensive state program was developed. Huge funds were allocated for these purposes, the National Innovation Fund was created.
However, all good undertakings for the modernization of the country were destroyed, paradoxically as it sounds, just an excess of money. The first half of the 2000s was a time of high oil prices, business people tried to make money faster and invested in the most profitable sectors - construction, finance. Under these conditions, the real sphere of the economy remained useless to anyone, and all the efforts of Adilbek Dzhaksybekov to modernize the country were useless.
President's right hand
Nevertheless, during his work as a minister, the politician proved to be a good organizer, able to assemble an effective team. In 2004, he was appointed head of the presidential administration. Many experts call this position in Kazakhstan the second after the president. After all, the head of the administration speaks on behalf of Nazarbayev, monitors the implementation of decrees, oversees the work of regional administrations.
In fact, for each government ministry there is a special department in the presidential administration that oversees his work. In these circumstances, the powers of Adilbek Dzhaksybekov became even wider than that of the Prime Minister.
However, his arrival in this post was accompanied by very difficult conditions. The scandalous elections of 2004 caused a split in society, a bickering began in the upper echelons of power. In such circumstances, the president decided to renew his inner circle and removed Tasmagambetov from the post of head of the administration, appointing Adilbek Dzhaksybekov.
He organized the work in his department rather well, tried to solve the arising working moments at his own level, without pestering the president in detail. On each issue, he provided a balanced decision, taking into account the views of all interested parties.
However, another political scandal that erupted in 2007 again forced the president to reshuffle, and in early 2008 he sent Adilbek Dzhaksybekov to the post of deputy chairman of the party in power.
Last years
Over the past ten years, a tireless statesman has replaced many posts. He was the ambassador of Kazakhstan to Russia, again headed Astana as mayor, led the ministry of defense. In his last position, he noted that he organized the first military parade in the history of Kazakhstan. So the residents of the republic saw what their native army was like.
Now the statesman has returned to the post of head of the presidential administration and is successfully controlling the work of the executive branch without showing his own political ambitions.
Dzhaksybekov Adilbek Ryskeldinovich. A family
The biography of the native politician deserves special study. Relatives of the politician play a big role in his business. After being appointed to the state post, the Tsesna concern was led by his elder brother Serik, and later the family business was transferred to the hands of his son, Dauren.