Saken Zhasuzakov

Saken Adilkhanovich Zhasuzakov (Sa’ken A’dilhanuly Jasuzaqov / Сәкен Әділханұлы Жасұзақов) is a Kazakh General and politician. He is the current Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan.

Biography
He was born in Chaldar, a village in Southern Kazakhstan in 1957. In 1978 Zhasuzakov graduated from the Alma-Ata Higher All-Arms Command School. From September 1987 to June 1990 he was a pupil of the Frunze Military Academy. In July 1994 he moved to Russia to attend the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. In 1996, he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan.

In 2003, First Deputy Commander of Land Forces of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and that same year he became Commander of the Regional Command East. In April 2009, Zhasuzakov was appointed the Chief of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan. From 2013 to 2016, Zhasuzakov was the First Deputy Minister of Defence of Kazakhstan. He was appointed as Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan by Presidential Decree on September 13, 2016. Zhasuzakov was awarded 4 medals from the Soviet Union,12 awards from Kazakhstan, and 8 awards from foreign countries like Belarus, Russia, and Mongolia.

Education
1978 —.

1990 — Military Academy named after M. V. Frunze.

1996 — Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia.

Awards

 * USSR:
 * Order "For Service to Motherland in the Armed Forces' 3rd degree (1989)
 * Medal "70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
 * medal "For faultless service" 2 and grade 3
 * Breastplate "soldiers-internationalists"
 * Kazakhstan:
 * Order of Dunk I degree (2012)
 * Order of Dunk II degree (2001)
 * Medal "10 years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
 * Medal "10 Years of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
 * Medal "10 Years of the Constitution of Kazakhstan"
 * Medal "10 years of Astana"
 * Medal "20 years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
 * Medal "20 Years of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
 * The medal "For faultless service" 2 and grade 3
 * Medal "For Strengthening Military Cooperation"
 * Medal "20 Years of Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
 * Jubilee Medal "20 years of internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
 * Russia:
 * Medal of Zhukov
 * Belarus:
 * Medal "60th Anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from Nazi invaders"
 * Kyrgyzstan:
 * Medal "For Distinction in Military Service"
 * Ukraine:
 * Jubilee Medal "60 years of Ukraine's liberation from Nazi invaders"
 * Mongolia:
 * Medal "50th Anniversary of the Mongolian People's Republic"
 * Medal "Military Cooperation"
 * Tajikistan:
 * Medal "5 years of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan"
 * Medal "15 Years of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan