Temirkhan Dosmukhanbetov

Temirkhan Myngaydaruly Dosmukhanbetov ( _kk. Досмұханбетов, Темірхан Мыңайдарұлы) has served as the Minister of Tourism and Sports in the Government of Kazakhstan since Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev appointed him on 27 March, 2006. [http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2006/03/280306.asp Kazakh President Splits Ministry] RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty] Prior to that he served as the Mayor of Astana. Nazarbayev appointed him mayor, replacing Adilbek Jaksybekov, on 16 June, 2006. Jaksebekov then became the Minister of Trade and Industry. [http://www.rferl.org/reports/centralasia/2003/06/21-200603.asp New Kazakh Government Formed, Sets Out Priorities] RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty]

Appointment to Minister of Culture and Information

President Nazarbayev split the Ministry of Culture, Information and Sport into a Culture and Information Ministry and a Tourism and Sport Ministry through a presidential decree on 27 March 2006. Nazarbayev then appointed Ermukhamet Ertysbayev, previously the Culture, Information, and Sport Minister, the Minister of the new Culture and Information Ministry while making Dosmukhanbetov the Minister of the new Tourism and Sport Ministry.

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