page_title: Almazbek Atambayev
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Almazbek Atambayev / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, October 31, 2015.
context_page_description: Almazbek Sharshenovich Atambayev is a Kyrgyz politician who served as the President of Kyrgyzstan from 1 December 2011 to 24 November 2017. He was Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan from 17 December 2010 to 1 December 2011, and from 29 March 2007 to 28 November 2007. He served as Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan from 30 July 1999 to 23 September 2011. Currently he is imprisoned, facing charges of corruption and manslaughter.
context_section_description: Almazbek Atambaev was born in 1956 in the Northern region of Chui. His father, Sharshen Atambayev, was a veteran of World War II (Great Patriotic War) who served on the front lines in Eastern Europe.
  Atambaev received his degree in economics while studying at the Moscow Institute of Management. He has four children from his marriage to his first wife Buazhar. In 1988 he married his second wife, Raisa, with whom he has six children: daughters Aliya (born 1997), Diana, and Dinara, and sons Seyit, Seytek, and Khadyrbek (born 1993). Raisa is an ethnic Tatar, born in the Urals in Russia, who moved to Osh as a child, with her parents. She is a doctor.
  In January 2018, he published a song he authored called "Kyrgyzstan", which was later rewritten by Azerbaijani performer Araz Elses.
caption: Atanbayev with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
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