Abish Kekilbayev

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Abish Kekilbayev
State Secretary of Kazakhstan
In office 30 October 1996 – 29 January 2002
President	Nursultan Nazarbayev
Preceded by	Akhmetzhan Yessimov
Succeeded by	Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Member of the Senate
In office 24 February 2002 – 11 March 2010
Member of the Mazhilis
In office 9 December 1995 – 30 October 1996
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	41st Mangystau
Chairman of the Supreme Council
In office 5 February 1994 – 11 March 1995
Preceded by	Serikbolsyn Abdildin
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Member of the Supreme Council
In office 25 March 1990 – 11 March 1995
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	166th Bayanaul (1990) 94th Mangystau (1994)
Personal details
Born	(1939-12-06)6 December 1939 Ondy, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Died	11 December 2015(2015-12-11) (aged 76) Astana, Kazakhstan
Nationality	Kazakh
Alma mater	Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
Military service
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Branch/service	Soviet Army
Years of service	1968–1970
Battles/wars	Sino-Soviet border conflict

Abish Kekilbayev (sometimes Kekilbayuly or Kekilbai, Kazakh: Әбіш Кекілбайұлы, Äbış Kekılbaiūly, [æbɘʂ kʲekɘlbajo̙ɫɯ]; 6 December 1939 – 11 December 2015)^[1] was a Kazakh National writer and politician who served as a Senator of Kazakhstan from 2002 to 2010, State Secretary of Kazakhstan from 1996 to 2002, and the Supreme Council Chairman from 1994 until its dissolution in 1995.

During the Soviet period, Kekilbayev worked as literary writer in which his work have become a noticeable phenomenon in the literary life of Kazakhstan. He served as the Deputy Minister of Culture of the Kazakh SSR, the second secretary of Board of the Union of Writers, the head of department of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Kazakhstan, Head of the Records Office for Culture and Inter-Ethnic Relations of the Kazakh SSR Presidential Administration, the editor-in-chief of the Yegemen Qazaqstan newspaper, the literary employee of the Kazakh adebiety newspaper, the head of literature and art department of the Leninshyl jas newspaper editorial office.

Throughout his life Kekilbayev was recognized with several awards and titles such as Hero of Labour (firstier kazakh writer and man, which with this award) National Writer of Kazakhstan, laureate of the State Prize, a philologist, academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, Emeritus Professor of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and of the L. Gumilyov Eurasian State University.^[2] Nickname – Abish Tagan.^[3]