Kurmanbek Bakiev

He was born on August the 1st 1949 in Masadan village of Suzak rayon in Jalalabad oblast.

In 1978 he graduated from the Kuibyshev Poly-technical institute on the computing specialty.

Since 1977 he already started to work as a mechanic in electronics of the fifth category, an electrical engineer of the data processing centre of the plane named after Maslennikov in Kuibyshev.

Since 1979 he was a senior engineer-mathematician, chief of the data-processing centre of the factory of plug sockets “PS" in Jalalabad.

From 1985 to 1990 he was the director of the “Profile” factory of the USSR Ministry of electronic industry in Kok-Jangak.

In 1990 he took the post of the first secretary the Kok-Jangak town committee of the CPSU, chairman of the city council of People's Deputies of Kok-Jangak.

In 1991 - 1992 he was the deputy chairman of the Jalalabad oblast Council of People's Deputies.

From 1992 to 1994 he was the governor of the Toguz-Toro rayon of Jalalabad oblast.

From 1995 to 1997 he was the head of Jalalabad oblast state administration.

From 1997 to 2000 he was the head of the Chui oblast state administration.

From December 2000 to May 2002 he was the Prime-Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic.

In October 2002 he was elected as a deputy to the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament (Jogorku Kenesh) of the Kyrgyz Republic in Ala-Buka constituency #15.

In February 2003 he entered the centrist group of the deputies of the Parliament “Regions of the Kyrgyz Republic”.

In 2004 has occupied the post of the chairman of the Central Board of the Political Forces Association “National Movement of Kyrgyzstan”.

On July the 10th 2005 he was elected to the post of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic.

At the presidential elections Kurmanbek Bakiev obtained 88.65 % of the votes.

He speaks Kyrgyz, Russian and Uzbek languages.

He is married. His wife is Tatyana Vasilievna Bakieva. In the Bakiev’s family they have two children – Marat and Maxim.