Askar Akayev
| Askar Akayev Аскар Акаев |
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| 1st President of Kyrgyzstan | |
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In office 27 October 1990 – 24 March 2005 |
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| Prime Minister |
Nasirdin Isanov Andrei Iordan (Acting) Tursunbek Chyngyshev Almanbet Matubraimov (Acting) Apas Jumagulov Kubanychbek Jumaliyev Boris Silayev (Acting) Jumabek Ibraimov Boris Silayev (Acting) Amangeldy Muraliyev Kurmanbek Bakiyev Nikolai Tanayev |
| Preceded by | position created |
| Succeeded by | Ishenbai Kadyrbekov (Acting) |
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10 November 1944 Kyzyl-Bayrak, Kirghiz SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Kyrgyz |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Mayram Akayeva |
| Children | Bermet Akayeva, , Saadat Akayeva , Ilym Akayev |
Askar Akayevich Akayev (Аскар Акаевич Акаев) (born 10 November 1944 in Kyzyl-Bayrak, Kemin District) was President of Kyrgyzstan from 1990 until his overthrow in the March 2005 Tulip Revolution.
Akayev was born in Kyzyl-Bayrak, Kirghiz SSR, on 10 November 1944. He was the youngest of five sons born into a family of collective farm workers. He became a metalworker at a local factory in 1961. He subsequently moved to Leningrad, where he trained as a physicist and graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics in 1967 with an honors degree in mathematics, engineering and computer science. He stayed at the institute until 1976, working as a senior researcher and teacher. In Leningrad he met and in 1970 married Mayram Akayeva with whom he now has two sons and two daughters. They returned to their native Kyrgyzstan in 1977, where he became a senior professor at the Frunze Polytechnic Institute. Some of his later cabinet members were former students and friends from his academic years.
He obtained a doctorate in 1981 from the Moscow Institute of Engineering and Physics, having written his dissertation on holographic systems of storage and transformation of information. In 1984, he became a member of the Kirghiz Academy of Sciences, rose to vice president of the Academy in 1987 and then president of the Academy in 1989. He was elected as a deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in the same year.
On 25 October 1990, the Kirghiz SSR's Supreme Soviet held elections for the newly created post of president of the republic. Two candidates contested the presidency, President of the Council of Ministers of Kirghiz SSR, Apas Jumagulov, and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kirghiz SSR, Absamat Masaliyev. However, neither Jumagulov nor Masaliyev received a majority of the votes cast. In accordance with the Kirghiz SSR's constitution of 1978, both candidates were disqualified and neither could run in the second round of voting.
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