Nurlan Utebovich Balgimbayev (Russian

Russian language

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: Нурлан Утебович Балгимбаев, Nurlán Uté'bovich Balgimbáyev; born 20 November 1947) served as the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan

Prime Minister of Kazakhstan

-Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars:*Viktor Radus-Zenkovich *Mukhamedkhafiy Murzagaliyev *Saken Seyfullin *Nygmet Nurmakov...

 from 10 October 1997 to 1 October 1999. He has been the President of the Kazakhstan Oil Investment Company since February 2002.

Prior to serving as Prime Minister

Prime minister

A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...

 he served as Minister of Oil and Gas, and later as President of KazakhOil. After his tenure as Prime Minister he continued his career as President at state-owned KazakhOil. Lyazzat Kiyinov replaced him after the merger between KazakhOil and Transport Nefti i Gaza companies into the new KazMunayGas

KazMunayGas

KazMunayGas is the state-owned oil and gas company of Kazakhstan. It was founded in 2002 by merging Kazakhoil and Oil and Gas Transportation.-Subsidiaries:Main subsidiaries of KazMunayGas are:...

. http://www.kmg.kz/main.php?page=inc/posted&mid=4&showm=3&type=menu&lang=eng

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