Gennady Vasilyevich Kolbin (Russian: Геннадий Васильевич Колбин; 7 May 1927 – 15 January 1998) was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR from 16 December 1986 to 22 June 1989.

Kolbin then served as the Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia.

After leaving, in 1976, to Moscow, following promotion as the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the CPSU, Yakov P. Ryabov was considered as the main candidate for the post of first secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the CPSU.

However, at the suggestion of Ryabov, acting secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU, Boris Yeltsin, was nominated for this post.

On his initiative, the Microelectronics Center, a branch of Moscow State University, was opened in Ulyanovsk, and a decision was made to build the President Bridge across the Volga River.

[4] In 1986, Kolbin was appointed as the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan.

He replaced Dinmukhamed Kunaev, who previously served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, from 1964.

He was appointed by Mikhail Gorbachev in an attempt to root out corruption in the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR.