Complex sentence: He graduated from the Kazakh Polytechnic Institute named for V. I. Lenin (now Kazakh National Technical University) in 1978, and began his intelligence career in the KGB's Jezkazgan branch in 1982.
Split into simpler sentences: He graduated from the Kazakh Polytechnic Institute named for V. I. Lenin (now Kazakh National Technical University) in 1978. Shayakhmetov began his intelligence career in the KGB's Jezkazgan branch in 1982.