[1] After Khrushchev was ousted in 1964, Yusupov was replaced with Dinmukhamed Akhmedovich Kunayev, a close friend of Brezhnev's.

After graduating from school, Yusupov's parents decided that since he had learned to read and write, he could well earn his own living.

Yusupov ended up in the Alma-Ata orphanage, where he helped in preparing children for admission to technical schools.

Two years of preparatory courses and Yusupov entered the Talgar Agricultural College, where he graduated in 1934.

In 1940, he enlisted in the Red Army and then graduated from the Minsk Military Academy for political officers.

In the fall, from the hospital, Yusupov was summoned to the Politburo, where he was given the task of organizing a ski-landing battalion.

[3] Following his service in the Red Army, Yusupov served as Minister of Water Resources of the Kazakh SSR.

[4] Yusupov was dismissed from the post of the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan at the suggestion of Leonid Brezhnev.