Muhammetnazar Gapuroviç Gapurov (Turkmen Cyrillic: Мухамметназар Гапурович Гапуров; Russian: Мухамметназар Капурович Капуров, tr.Mukhammetnazar Kapurovich Kapurov; 15 February 1922 – 13 July 1999) was a Turkmen politician who has served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR from 1969 until 1985. He spent his entire career in the Komsomol and Communist Party apparatus, becoming the republic's most influential politician for almost two decades in the Brezhnev era.
Gapurov was born in a small village close to Charjou, Charjou Oblast (now Türkmenabat, Lebap Province). In December 1941 he was drafted into the army, serving as the commander of a gunners section in the 88th Separate Rifle Brigade of the Central Asian Military District. From 1941 to 1944 he was on active duty in the Red Army during World War II. In 1948 Gapurov joined the Communist Party nomenklatura as head of the Propaganda Department at the district level in Charjou oblast and gradually climbed the party ladder. He graduated from the Pedagogical Institute in Ashkhabad in 1954. From 1951 to 1955 he worked as first secretary of the Komsomol organisation, and later he held various party posts before assuming the republic's leadership.
In 1969, he was appointed first secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR. During his time in office, the republic received considerable investment in its modernisation of the gas and oil sectors, and living standards rose significantly for the general population. However, excessive centralised control over economic development and macroeconomic mismanagement led to a stagnation of economic growth in most sectors of the republic's economy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Gapurov's era also witnessed further growth in nepotism, regional rivalries and corruption.
In 1985, incoming General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev removed Gapurov from his post due to a cotton-related corruption scandal and sent him into retirement.
Later life
He never returned to the political arena and held several minor positions in the late 1980s. He authored several books and articles during the Soviet era, mainly on Communist Party and Turkmenistan development issues. In the 1990s he began writing his memoirs but left them unfinished when he died on 13 July 1999.[1] He was known to have one son, Batyr who died in September 2015 at the age of 61 of cardiac arrest.[2]
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