Background
The Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s wife is Russian, they have two children. Tatyana Vasilyevna Bakiyev has been heading the regional department of the International charity foundation for a few years already.
The Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s wife is Russian, they have two children. Tatyana Vasilyevna Bakiyev has been heading the regional department of the International charity foundation for a few years already.
In 1972 he graduated from Kuybyshev Polytechnical Institute, specializing in electronic computers.
Beginning of the Bakiyev’s employment history is quite ordinary for Soviet people of that time. He was a worker at a Kuybyshev factory (1972-1974), a senior engineer at the factory of plug sockets in Jalal-Abad (1979-1985), the director of the factory “Profil” (1985-1990). His future fate is connected with activities of political parties and public authorities. He worked as the first secretary in party of Kok-Zhangaksky city committee and the chairman of city council (1990-1991). Then he was an assistant chairman of Jalal-Abad Regional Council of People's Deputies (1991-1992), headed Toguz-Toro Regional Administration (1992-1994), was a deputy and, later, the head of Jalal-Abad Regional Administration (1995-1997), served as a governor of Chuy Province(1997-2000).
In December of 2000 Kurmanbek Bakiyev was appointed to the position of the prime-minister of Kyrgyzstan. He retired after Askar Akayev authorized the dispersal of anti-government demonstration in Aksy District in March 2002. The army shot at people during this operation (5 people were killed and more than 80 were wounded). During the following two years (2003-2005) Bakiyev was the deputy in legislative assembly and was a part of centrist deputy group “The Districts of Kyrgyzstan”. In 2004 he headed Kyrgyzstan Popular Assembly and later became one of the leaders Anti-Akayev opposition, which was organized by the disaffected with parliamentary elections in 2005. After the dismissal of the President Askar Akayev the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan appointed Bakiyev to the position of president and prime-minister.