Ismail Yusupov
Ismail Abdurasulovich Yusupov Uyghur: ئىسمايىل يۈسۈپ, Ысмайыл Абдрасулұлы Юсупов, Исмаил Юсупович Юсупов: was a member of the Uyghur minority and a Soviet Communist political figure in the Kazakh SSR. From 1962 to 1964 he was first secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR. After Khrushchev was ousted in 1964, Yusupov was replaced with Dinmukhamed Kunayev, a close friend of Brezhnev's. Until his retirement in 1971, he held several lower functions in the field of agriculture.
Yusupov attended an agricultural college and graduated in 1934. In 1940, he enlisted in the army and then graduated from the Minsk Military Academy for political officers. From June 1941 to July 1942 he was on the Leningrad front attached to a skiing assault battalion as a political officer. In addition to other formal recognition he was awarded the Order of Lenin for his service in World War II.
Yusupov helped establish Uyghur region within the Almaty Oblast, as well as the Uyghur National Theater.
