Muhammetnazar Gapurow

Muhammetnazar Gapurow
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan
In office
24 December 1969 – 21 December 1985
Preceded byBalyş Öwezow
Succeeded bySaparmyrat Nyýazow
Personal details
Born
Muhammetnazar Gapurowiç Gapurow

(1922-02-15)15 February 1922
Charjou, Turkmen SSR, Soviet Union
Died13 July 1999(1999-07-13) (aged 77)
Berzengi, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
NationalityTurkmen
OccupationPolitician
Military service
Allegiance Soviet Union
Branch/serviceRed Army
Years of service1941–1944
Rank Staff sergeant
Battles/warsWorld War II

Muhammetnazar Gapurowiç Gapurow[a] (Turkmen: Мухамметназар Гапурович Гапуров; 15 February 1922 – 13 July 1999) was a Turkmen politician who was the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR from 1969 until 1985. He spent his entire career in the Komsomol and Communist Party apparatus, becoming the republic's most influential politician for almost two decades in the Brezhnev era.
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