Background
OVEZOV, Balash was born in 1915 in village Bederkent, now Tashauz Oblast, Turkmenistan.
OVEZOV, Balash was born in 1915 in village Bederkent, now Tashauz Oblast, Turkmenistan.
1936 graduated Ashkhabad Pedagogical Institute. 1943 graduated Higher Party School, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
At 1952 and 1956 Communist Party of the Soviet Union Congresses elected member, Communist Party of the Soviet Union Auditing Commission. Deputy, Turkmenistan Supreme Soviet of 1951, 1955 and 1959 convocation. Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1958 convocation.
1936-1939 Secretary, Tashauz Okrug Communist Youth League Committee. 1939-1940 Secretary, Central Committee, Turkmenistan Communist Youth League. 1940-1941 Turkmenistan Deputy Popular Commissar of Education, then Director, Organ, and Instruction Department, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Turkmenistan.
1943-1946 Second Secretary, Ashkhabad, then Tashauz Oblast Committee(b) Turkmenistan. 1946-1950 Sccr., Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Turkmenistan, then First Secretary, Mary Oblast Committee(b) Turkmenistan. 1951-1960 (with a break from January-December 1958) Chairman, Turkmenistan Council of Ministers.
1959-1960 simultaneously Turkmenistan Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Member, Communist Party, since 1939.
Member, Communist Party, since 1939.