Muratbek Sansyzbayevich Imanaliyev (Russian: Муратбек Сансизбаевич Иманалиев; born 25 February 1956) is a Kyrgyz politician who served as the foreign minister of Kyrgyzstan from 1991 to 1992 and from 1 July 1997 to 2002.
[2][1] Imanaliyev was born on 25 February 1956 in Frunze (now Bishkek), Kirghiz SSR, USSR.
He graduated from the Institute of Asian and African Countries, Moscow in 1978 and earned his postgraduate degree from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1982, where he specialised in Chinese language translation and history.
He speaks Kyrgyz, Russian, English and Chinese.
Imanaliyev is the author of over 100 publications in Russia, China, Turkey, India, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.