page_title: Askar Mamin
section_title: Early life and career
hierarchical_section_title: Askar Mamin / Early life and career
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Аскар Мамин с президентом Туркменистана Гурбангулы Бердымухаммедовым
context_page_description: Askar Uzakbaiuly Mamin is the current Prime Minister of Kazakhstan. He served as First Deputy Prime Minister from 9 September 2016 to 21 February 2019. Previously he was the President of the Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, the national railway company of Kazakhstan. He also serves as the President of the Kazakhstan Ice Hockey Federation, a position he assumed in 2008.
  He previously served as Mayor of Astana and Minister of Transport and Communication in the Government of Kazakhstan.
  Mamin is a member of the ruling Nur Otan political party.
context_section_description: Mamin graduated from Tselinograd Civil Engineering Institute, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics with civil engineering and economics specialties. He began his career as an erector of "Tselintyazhstroy" trust. He served as Deputy Director General of Innovative Enterprises Union of Kazakhstan. From 1996 to 2008, he served as the First Deputy Mayor of the City of Astana, Vice-Minister of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Kazakhstan, First Vice-Minister of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
  On 17 April 2008, Mamin became the president of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy. Since September 2016, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy.
  On 9 September 2016, he was appointed as the First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan in the Sagintayev's government. On 8 January 2018, Mamin joined the board of directors of the national company Kazakh Tourism. On 21 February 2019, Prime Minister Bakhytzhan Sagintayev was dismissed by Nursultan Nazarbayev. As a result, Mamin became the Acting Prime Minister and was confirmed by the Parliament to be the new Prime Minister on 25 February 2019.
caption: Mamin with the President of Turkmenistan.
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