Gennady Kolbin

Gennady Vasilyevich Kolbin (; 7 May 1927 – 15 January 1998) was a Soviet politician who has been the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR from 1986 to 1989.

Kolbin joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1954. He was the First Secretary of the Ulyanovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU from 1983 to 1987.

Kolbin was appointed as the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan in 1986, replacing Dinmukhamed Kunaev. Kolbin had not worked in the Kazakh SSR before his appointment. He was appointed by Mikhail Gorbachev to stop corruption in the Communist Party of Kazakhstan. His appointment caused violent protests in Almaty and other cities, with many thousand protesters killed and hundreds injured. Kolbin was replaced by Nursultan Nazarbayev in 1989.

On 15 January 1998, while travelling to visit his daughter, Kolbin felt unwell and collapsed in the metro, and died of a heart attack. He was buried at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.

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