Uraz Isayev

He was a member of the Ural district-city workers’ and peasants’ militia, then became deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Shalkar Volost Council in 1919, then Commissioner of the District Trade Union Bureau in 1920.

On September 17, 1932, Stalin signed the resolution of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks “On the development of livestock farming in Kazakhstan”.

At the end of the decade he joined a special troika created by order of the NKVD of the USSR dated July 30, 1937 and was an active participant in Stalin’s repressions.

He was sentenced by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR to death on August 29, 1938, on charges of “participation in a counter-revolutionary terrorist organization” and shot on the same day.

He laid the foundation for the industrial development of Kazakhstan; under his leadership, the Embaneft enterprise, the Karaganda coal basin, and the Balkhash, Karpaksai, Zhezkazgan, Leninogorsk, and Zyryanovsky copper smelters were built.