Maksut Sultanuly Narikbaev ( kk, Мақсұт Сұлтанұлы Нәрікбаев, ''Maqsūt Sūltanūly Närıkbaev''; 9 May 1940 – 12 October 2015) was a

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who served as the third Chairman of the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan. Between 2004 and 2012 he served as the chairman of the

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. In 2012 he retired as the chairman and was elected an honorary chairman of the party.

Biography

Maksut Sultanuly Narikbaev was born in 1940 to a

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family in

Taldykorgan District Taldykorgan ( kk, Талдықорған/Taldyqorğan; russian: Талдыкорган), known as ''Taldy-Kurgan'' until 1993, is the capital (called an administrative center) of Zhetysu Region, Kazakhstan. According to the 2010 Kazakh Census Resul ...

Almaty Region Almaty Region ( kk, Алматы облысы, Almaty oblysy; russian: Алматинская область, Almatinskaya oblast) is a region in Kazakhstan, located in the southeastern part of the country. Its capital, from 1997 to 2022 was the ...

. He is the son of Sultan Narikbaev. Between 1968 and 1978 he studied law in the Kazakh State University in

Almaty Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( kk, Алма-Ата), is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of about 2 million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1936 as an autonomous republic as part of ...

. From 1987, he was employed by the State Prosecutor of Kazakhstan. He held degrees of the candidate of science and the doctor of science. Between October 1995 and June 1996 Narikbaev was the State Prosecutor of Kazakhstan, subsequently until September 2000 he was the Chairman of the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan. Narikbaev died on 12 October 2015 at the age of 75 in

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