Uraz Isayev

Uraz Isayev
Ораз Исаев
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Kazakh SSR
In office
5 December 1936 – 31 May 1938
Preceded byHimself (as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Kazakh ASSR)
Succeeded byIbrahim Tajiyev
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Kazakh ASSR
In office
May 1928 – 5 December 1936
Preceded byNygmet Nurmakov
Succeeded byHimself (as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Kazakh SSR)
Personal details
BornUraz Januzaquly Isayev
(1899-05-28)28 May 1899
Lbischenska, Ural Oblast, Russian Empire
Died29 August 1938(1938-08-29) (aged 39)
Resting placeKommunarka shooting ground
PartyCPSU (1920–1938)
SpouseSara Yesova
ChildrenNurlan, Beket

Uraz Januzaquly Isayev (Kazakh: Ораз Жанұзақұлы Исаев, 28 May 1899 – 29 August 1938) was a Soviet politician, who served as de-facto Prime Minister of the Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (May 1929 – December 1936) and the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (December 1936 – September 1937).

A candidate-member of the Central Committee elected by the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) from 1934 to 12 October 1937, and a full member until 31 May 1938, he was arrested and executed during the Great Purge. He was rehabilitated on 19 May 1956.