Anvar Artykov

Artykov started work in 1966, working at an office for the Kyrgyz SSR's Ministry of Housing and Communal Services. He performed his military service in the Soviet Army between 1973 and 1975,^[1] being posted to the Moscow Military District.^[3] Three years later, in 1979, Artykov became the main engineer at a motor depot in Osh, working there for two years.^[3]

Artykov's last job before becoming a deputy was as an instructor in the industrial department of the local Osh Oblast chapter of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1984 to 1991.^[3]

In 1990, Aryktov became a deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the Kirghiz SSR, and then after Kyrgyzstan's independence from the Soviet Union continued to be a deputy in the new Jogorku Kenesh until 2000. From 2004 to 2005, Artykov headed a World Bank project on energy.^[3]

Artykov was part of the opposition during the Tulip Revolution in March 2005, which saw president Askar Akayev overthrown. In a 'kurultai' or congress of opposition figures, Artykov was elected as a "people's governor" of Osh Region on 19 March 2005, but was detained by the police a day later.^[4] After Akayev resigned the presidency on 24 March, Artykov was made the acting governor of the region on the 25th,^[1] and spent a little under nine months in the role, being dismissed on 12 December 2005.^[5]

Artykov was one of three Uzbeks^[6] elected to the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan (Jogorku Kenesh) in the 2010 Kyrgyz parliamentary election as part of the Ar-Namys party, which he left in April 2011 along with nine other deputies to cross the floor to the majority coalition, which at the time included the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan (SDPK), the Respublika Party and Ata-Zhurt.^[7] He served on the council's defence security committee from 2012 onwards.^[2] Artykov was reelected in the 2015 Kyrgyz parliamentary election as an SDPK deputy.^[3]

Artykov is married, and has five children.^[3] He is ethnically Uzbek.^[8][2]