People's Hero of Kazakhstan (Kazakh

Kazakh language

Kazakh is a Turkic language which belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages, closely related to Nogai and Karakalpak....

: Халық қаһарманы, trans.

Transliteration

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 Khalyk Kaharmany) is the highest distinction conferred by the Republic of Kazakhstan, along with the Order of Golden Eagle.

Overview

According to the Law on State Awards of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the honor would be bestowed on Kazakhs and foreigners who have performed extraordinary service to the Republic, or for exemplary military or civil exploits done in the name of its independence or freedom. Individuals who are granted the title also receive the Order of the Fatherland (Otan). People's Hero is the country's highest award, equaled only by the Order of the Golden Eagle. Those conferred with the title are awarded a gilded medal in the form of a seven-rayed star, with colorless Zirconium

Zirconium

Zirconium is a chemical element with the symbol Zr and atomic number 40. The name of zirconium is taken from the mineral zircon. Its atomic mass is 91.224. It is a lustrous, grey-white, strong transition metal that resembles titanium...

 stones set between its rays. Recipients are exempt from property tax and other obligations.

The award was established by a decree of President Nursultan Nazarbayev

Nursultan Nazarbayev

Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev has served as the President of Kazakhstan since the nation received its independence in 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union...

 on 21 December 1993. At 23 May 1994, Defense Minister Sagadat Nurmagambetov

Sagadat Nurmagambetov

Sagadat Nurmagambetov is a retired Soviet and Kazakhstani general who served as Chairman of Kazakhstan's State Defense Committee in 1991-1992 and Kazakhstan's first Minister of Defense following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, holding the office of Defense Minister from May 1992 to...

 received the title, becoming the first People's Hero of Kazakhstan.

Notable recipients

• Sagadat Nurmagambetov
  Sagadat Nurmagambetov
  Sagadat Nurmagambetov is a retired Soviet and Kazakhstani general who served as Chairman of Kazakhstan's State Defense Committee in 1991-1992 and Kazakhstan's first Minister of Defense following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, holding the office of Defense Minister from May 1992 to...
  
   (awarded 1994).
• Toktar Aubakirov
  Toktar Aubakirov
  Toktar Ongarbayuly Aubakirov is a retired Kazakhstani Air Force officer and a former cosmonaut .-Early life:Toktar Aubakirov was born on July 27, 1946 in Karaganda, Kazakh SSR, which is now Kazakhstan...
  
   (1995)
• Talgat Musabayev
  Talgat Musabayev
  Talgat Amangeldyuly Musabayev , is a Kazakh test pilot and former cosmonaut who flew on three spaceflights. His first two spaceflights were long-duration stays aboard the Russian space station Mir. His third spaceflight was a short duration visiting mission to the International Space Station, which...
  
   (1995)
• Yuri Malenchenko
  Yuri Malenchenko
  Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko is a Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut. Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas, while he was 240 miles over New Zealand, on the International Space Station...
  
   (1995)
• Shafik Chokin
  Shafik Chokin
  Sháfik Chókinovich Chókin is the most recognized Kazakh scientist of energy sector. Doctor of Sciences, Professor. Founder of Kazakh Scientific Research Institute of power engineering. Deputy of The Supreme Soviet of the USSR, associate of the chairman of Soviet of the Union chamber...
  
   (1996)
• Roza Baglanova
  Roza Baglanova
  Roza Tazhibaevna Baglanova was a Soviet and Kazakh soprano opera and pop music singer, who was honored with many awards throughout her career, including the People’s Artist of the USSR and the Order of Lenin...
  
   (1996)
• Kayrat Ryskulbekov (1996)
• Rakhimzhan Qoshqarbaev
  Rakhimzhan Qoshqarbaev
  Raqymzhan Qoshqarbayev was a Kazakh soldier. He was the first officer to raise the Soviet Flag over the Reichstag building in Berlin, on April 30, 1945, during World War II....
  
   (1999, posthumously)
• Mukhtar Altynbayev
  Mukhtar Altynbayev
  Mukhtar Qapashuly Altynbayev served as the Minister of Defense and General of the Army of Kazakhstan twice, most recently from December 2001 to 10 January 2007. Prime Minister Karim Massimov replaced him with former Prime Minister Daniyal Akhmetov in a political shakeup...
  
   (2006)
• Baurzhan Momyshuly
  Baurzhan Momyshuly
  Baurzhan Momyshuly was a Kazakh-Soviet military officer, writer and a posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union.- Early life :...
  
  (posthumously)

External links

• People's Hero of Kazakhstan. medals.uk.