Sergey Alexandrovich Tereshchenko (; 30 March 1951 – 10 February 2023) was a Kazakhstani politician. He served as the

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from 1991 to 1994 and later as the acting chairman of Otan from 1999 to 2002.

Life and career

Tereshchenko was born in the town of Lesozavodsk, which was in the

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of the

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. In 1969, he moved to the

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, where he studied mechanical engineering at the Kazakh National Agrarian University, where he graduated in 1973. After graduation, Tereshchenko was sent to work as chief engineer of the collective farm in

Shymkent Shymkent (, ; ) is a city in southern Kazakhstan, located near the border with Uzbekistan. It holds the status of a city of republican significance, one of only three cities in Kazakhstan with this distinction, alongside Almaty and Astana. As of ...

(known at the time as ''Chimkent''). In 1975, he was elected First Secretary of the Tulkubas District Komsomol Committee, where he worked for four years. In the seven years after leaving the post, Tereshchenko served as the head local party/executive positions in Shymkent. In the spring of 1990, Tereshchenko served as deputy chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR. For about one and a half years after leaving that post, he was the first secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee in

Chimkent Shymkent (, ; ) is a city in southern Kazakhstan, located near the border with Uzbekistan. It holds the status of a city of republican significance, one of only three cities in Kazakhstan with this distinction, alongside Almaty and Astana. As of ...

. He briefly elected by Supreme Council as Vice President of the Kazakh SSR from April to May 1990. In the remaining months of 1991, Tereshchenko assumed the post of Prime Minister of the Kazakh SSR. When the country gained independence on 16 December, he was appointed to the newly created post of Prime Minister. During his tenure, his

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began work to privatize formerly state-run companies. He also proposed strengthening executive power in order to bring about economic reforms in the country. In late May 1994, Tereshchenko suffered a defeat when the

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passed a

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in the Tereshchenko Government. He held out for several months until he was dismissed by President

Nursultan Nazarbayev Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev (born 6 July 1940) is a Kazakhstani politician who served as the first president of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019. He also held the special title of Elbasy from 2010 to 2022 and chairman of the Security Council of ...

on 12 October following a corruption scandal involving his Minister of Internal Affairs that month. Akezhan Kazhegeldin was chosen to be Tereshchenko's successor, which followed his retirement from public service. After his dismissal, he served as the President of the International Foundation "Integration", the main goal of which is the start of a integration process of Kazakhstan into the economic, political, and cultural space of world stage. In 1998, he was among those supporting the

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of Nursultan Nazarbayev for the presidency.

Personal life and death

Tereshchenko was an ethnic Ukrainian and was one of the first from his ethnicity to take office in independent

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

. His wife, Yevgenia Grigorievna, was a Russian language teacher of literature. They had two daughters, Nina and Elena. Tereshchenko died in 10 February 2023, at the age of 71.

Awards

* Hero of Labor (2012) * Order of Otan (2012) * Presidential Peace and Spiritual Consent Award (1999) *

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1st Degree (1999) * Order of Barys 2nd Degree (2005) *

(2004) (

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) * Order "Alғys" (2012) (

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, Metropolitan Church of Kazakhstan) * Honorary Citizen of the South Kazakhstan Region * Freedom of the city of Almaty (2014) *Honorary Citizen of the City of

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* Presidential Prize for Peace and Spiritual Consent of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1999)

External links

История в лицах – Сергей Терещенко
(in Russian)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tereshchenko, Sergey 1951 births 2023 deaths Kazakhstani people of Ukrainian descent Prime ministers of Kazakhstan Vice presidents of Kazakhstan Heads of government of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Members of the Central Committee of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union People from Lesozavodsk Sergey