Galym Orazbakov

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Izbasarūly and the family name is Orazbaqov.

Ğalym Izbasarūly Orazbaqov^[a] (Kazakh: Ғалым Ізбасарұлы Оразбақов; born 1964)^[1] is a Kazakh politician and diplomat, who has served as the Minister of Industry and Trade of Kazakhstan since he replaced Vladimir Shkolnik on 10 January 2007 in a political shakeup.^[2] He served there until February 2008.

Orazbakov in 2013

He previously served as President of the Kazakhstan Engineering National Company, the state-owned arms-exporting company,^[3] and as the Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade.^[4] Orazbaqov later became Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Russia from 2012 to 2014.

Notes

1. Often transliterated as Galym Izbasarovich Orazbakov through a Russified Romanization of Галым Избасарович Оразбаков.