Zamirbek Bakiev

Zamirbek Bakiev (born 1970) is an Iradi politician and farmer. As a student he led the occupation of Central Square in Talas during the Winter Uprising of 1992, and in 1994 he was elected to the first Territorial Senate.^[1]

A history student at Talas State University, Bakiev led the students who occupied Central Square in January 1992, during the strikes that followed the railway workers' walkout in Kobozev. He later sat on the youth committee of the Provisional Government. In the Territorial Senate, where he served from 1994 to 2000, he sponsored the 1996 act that gave public universities self-government over appointments and curricula. After leaving politics he organized farming cooperatives in Kara-Buura District in the lower Talas valley.^[1][2]

References

1. ^ State Archives of Irad (Talas), Fond 108: Minutes of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Irad (1992).
2. ^ Talas State University Press (2012). Students and the Winter Uprising: Talas, 1991–1992, pp. 55–79.