Biography of Karimov

Advertising on Neftegaz. He was at the head of the republic with G when he became the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR. He was elected three times by the President of Uzbekistan - in the popular elections in December, in January, and in December, he died in G. in G. Parents sent Karimov to Samarkand, in G. They took home, and again sent it to the orphanage.

After graduating from high school, he entered the Central Asian Polytechnic Institute in Tashkent. In G, Karmov graduated from the institute, receiving the specialty "Mechanical Engineer". In Karimov, he began working at the Tashselmash plant, and held the posts of an assistant master, master and technologist of the plant. He worked as an engineer, designer and leading engineer at the Tashkent Aviation Production Association named after Chkalov.

In addition, according to some reports, Karimov worked in the Tashkent production association "Hermetic", which specialized in the sealing of electronic devices, and in the Ministry of Water Economy of the Uzbek SSR. In G. I. Karimov went to work in the State Planning Commission of the Uzbek SSR, where he consistently held the posts of the chief specialist of the department, assistant chairman, head of the department, head of the department, deputy and first deputy chairman of the state plan.

In G, he graduated from the Tashkent Institute of National Economy and received the specialty "Economist". In GH Karimov worked as the first secretary of the Kashkadarya regional committee of the Communist Party. In March, during the referendum on the entry of the Union republics in the USSR, he convinced the majority of the population of Uzbekistan to vote in order to remain as part of the Soviet Union.

In December, in the popular elections he was elected president of the country.

In March, a referendum was held in Uzbekistan, as a result of which the term of the presidential powers of Karimov was extended to G. in January, Garimov was again elected to the post of head of state. In January, another referendum was held in Uzbekistan, which increased the term of powers of the president from five to seven years and theoretically allowed Karimov to be elected twice for a seven -year term.

At the same time, Karimov Islam Abduganievich, who elected the authoritarian model of state development, received almost unlimited power, but failed to achieve a real improvement in the living standards for the majority of the population and gradually began to lose his original legitimacy. As the economic situation worsens and the aggravation of the struggle for power, Muslim leaders became the serious threat to the political regime of Karimov.

The situation was especially aggravated in, and g, when the militants arranged explosions and terrorist attacks in Tashkent, and large -scale clashes of government troops with an armed Uzbek opposition were held in the territory of the republic and in neighboring Kyrgyzstan. In response, Karimov held several series of mass arrests in the republic, and in G reformed the traditional community institution of local self -government - Mahalla, creating on its basis the armed detachments of the "Guardians of the Mahall".

According to experts, Mahalli became the main element of the system of surveillance and control over the population of the republic. According to experts, since the beginning of the 10ths, I. Karimov has been striving for the independent foreign policy of Uzbekistan, but due to military conflicts in the border Tajikistan and Afghanistan, he was forced to look for support for stronger patrons, playing on the contradictions between them.

So, independence from Moscow was achieved at the expense of the alliance with Washington and vice versa. Later, fearing the possible invasion of the Taliban from Afghanistan and the export of the Islamic Revolution, he again went closer to Moscow, and in June, Uzbekistan joined the "Shanghai Five" China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, which began to be called the Shanghai organization of SCO cooperation.

In the fall, G, Tashkent, actively supported the American operation against Afghanistan provoked by terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11 and provided Washington with the opportunity to open a military base on the territory of Uzbekistan. In Islam, Karimov was sharply criticized by the West and international organizations after the events of May in the Uzbek city of Andijan, where government troops opened fire on civilians who demanded the immediate implementation of socio-political and economic reforms in the republic.

According to the official version, the authorities suppressed the anti -government rebellion of terrorists financed by the US Embassy and foreign media. Moscow supported the version of Tashkent about the organization of Andijan speeches by Islamic extremists, and soon Russia and Uzbekistan signed an allied relationship, including the provision of military bases and military facilities to each other, and Karimov ordered to close the American military base in Uzbekistan.

After that, Tashkent joined the Eurasian Economic Community of the EurAsEC, and its foreign policy began to be a pronounced anti -American character. At the same time, the foreign policy course Karimov largely determined the direction of the country's economic development.In x GX, when Tashkent distance from Moscow, a decrease in trade and production volumes was noted in the republic due to the fact that technological industry in Russia and Uzbekistan was closely connected.

Then Karimov headed for the forced industrialization of the economy, which was largely due to the coagulation of social programs. As a result, its own aircraft industry base was preserved in Uzbekistan, automobile industry appeared. A turning point in the economic cooperation of Moscow and Tashkent was the year when the Russian-Uzbek consortium was created to develop Uzbek gas fields and a strategic partnership between countries was signed.

In g, after the Andijan events, Karimov promised to sell to Russian businessmen many non -reflected strategic enterprises of the republic. In September, in the year of the expiration of the constitutional term of Karimov’s powers as the head of the republic, an election campaign began according to the election of the President of Uzbekistan planned for December. In October, the Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan nominated Karimova as her candidate.

Representatives of the opposition opposed Karimov’s nomination, since by law he could not be the president of the country for more than two in a row. Despite the presence of other candidates for the presidency, experts agreed that Karimov’s victory was predetermined. According to preliminary results, 88.1 percent of voting voters supported the candidacy of Karimov, newly elected by the President of Uzbekistan.

At the CSTO summit on September 5, Karimov signed a declaration in which concern was expressed in connection with the actions of Georgia in South Ossetia and the expansion of NATO to the east, as well as support for the active role of Russia in the assistance of the world and cooperation in the region. But in the same autumn, the rapprochement of Uzbekistan with Western countries was also outlined; According to some experts, it was precisely this that the suspension of the membership of Uzbekistan in the EurAsEC in November was connected with this.

Awards of scientific degrees and titles of Doctor of Economic Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan Academician of the Russian Academy of Aviation and Air Force Honorary Dr. and Academician of a number of foreign universities and academies awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and the Order of Friendship of Peoples, the Golden Star under the number of Uzbekistan Khramon Uzbekistan "Orders" Mustakillik and Amir Temur are near other orders and medals of foreign states and international organizations of the Karim is the author of a number of monographs on the political and economic development of Uzbekistan, his works were published in a collection of 10 volumes.

Islam Karimov was married to a second marriage, he and his wife have two adult daughters - Gulnara and Lola, he also has a son from his first marriage, Peter. He died on September 2 at the age of 78.