Oral Muhamedjanov

Muhamedjanov was born in 1947 in the city of Kostanay to parents Muhamedjanov Baygonys (1915–1993) and Muhamedjanova Biken (1927–1955), who died at the age of 28 when Oral was eight years old. In 1971, he graduated from the Novosibirsk Institute of Cooperative Trade and then in Alma-Ata Higher Party School in 1980.

From 1971 to 1976 he worked in the city of Kostanay in a Regional Consumer Union, worsted-cloth factory. From 1976 to 1992 he worked in various positions in the Komsomol and party bodies, in the Regional Council of People's Deputies of the Torgai Region. From 1992 to 1994 he was the head of the Amangeldy District Administration.

In 1994, Muhamedjanov became a deputy chairman of the Committee on Economic Reform of the Supreme Soviet of the 13th convocation. From 1995 to 1997, he was the head of the Department of Social and Cultural Development of the Office of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

From 1997 to 2004 he worked in the Administration of the President of Kazakhstan, having gone from a state inspector to the head of the Department of organizational and control work.

In the 2004 legislative election held in September 2004, Muhamedjanov was elected to the Mäjilis and was its chair from November 2004 to September 2007. In August 2007, he was re-elected for a second term and became a member of the Committee on Agricultural Issues. On 11 February 2008, Muhamedjanov was chosen to be the parliamentary leader of the Nur Otan.^[2] On 13 October 2008, he was chosen to be the chair again until the dissolution of the Mäjilis on 16 November 2011.^[3][4] After the 2012 Kazakh legislative election, Muhamedjanov a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Security, while Nurlan Nigmatulin succeeded him as the chair of the Mäjilis.^[5][6]

Muhamedjanov died on 15 October 2013 at the age of 65.^[7] He is buried at the National Pantheon of Kazakhstan.^[8]