Gennady Kolbin

Gennady Kolbin
Геннадий Колбин
Chairman of the Party and State Control Committee
In office
7 June 1989 – 26 December 1990
Preceded bySergey Manyakin
Succeeded byPosition abolished
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan
In office
16 December 1986 – 22 June 1989
Preceded byDinmukhamed Kunaev
Succeeded byNursultan Nazarbayev
First Secretary of the Ulyanovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU
In office
15 December 1983 – 12 January 1987
Preceded byIvan Kuznetsov
Succeeded byYuri Samsonov
Personal details
Born
Gennady Vasilyevich Kolbin

(1927-05-07)7 May 1927
Nizhny Tagil, Ural Oblast, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Died15 January 1998(1998-01-15) (aged 70)
Moscow, Russia
NationalityRussian
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1954–1991)
Spouse(s)Sofya Kolbina
Children2
EducationUral Polytechnic Institute
ProfessionMetallurgical engineer
AwardsOrder of Lenin (twice)

Gennady Vasilyevich Kolbin (Russian: Геннадий Васильевич Колбин; 7 May 1927 – 15 January 1998) was a Soviet politician who has been the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR from 1986 to 1989.

Kolbin joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1954. He was the First Secretary of the Ulyanovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU from 1983 to 1987.

Kolbin was appointed as the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan in 1986, replacing Dinmukhamed Kunaev. Kolbin had not worked in the Kazakh SSR before his appointment. He was appointed by Mikhail Gorbachev to stop corruption in the Communist Party of Kazakhstan. His appointment caused violent protests in Almaty and other cities, with many thousand protesters killed and hundreds injured. Kolbin was replaced by Nursultan Nazarbayev in 1989.

On 15 January 1998, while travelling to visit his daughter, Kolbin felt unwell and collapsed in the metro, and died of a heart attack. He was buried at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.

References

  1. 1 2 "Жизнь и смерть Геннадия Колбина". azh.kz (in Russian). Retrieved 10 January 2026.
  2. ↑ "KAZAKHSTAN DAILY DIGEST". Eurasianet. 4 September 2008. Archived from the original on 4 September 2008. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
  3. ↑ Putz, Catherine (16 December 2016). "1986: Kazakhstan's Other Independence Anniversary". The Diplomat. Retrieved 10 January 2026.