Last position: Member of the Constitutional Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Date of birth: 21.09.1958
Place of birth: Kazakh SSR; Kokchetav region; Enbekshilderski district; Kazgorodok village
Marital status, family ties:
• Wife: Merkel Margarita Vladimirovna
• Children: son – Ivan (born in 1985); daughter – Anna-Maria (born 1992)
Languages:
• Russian, German
Education, specialty (qualification), licenses:
• Sverdlovsk Law Institute (1984)
Lawyer
Work experience:
• Turner-milling plant of the Metallist plant in Kokchetav (1978);
• Trainee, investigator of the prosecutor’s office of the Chkalovsky district, investigator of especially important cases of the prosecutor’s office of the Kokchetav region, prosecutor of the Chistopol district, the city of Sarani, deputy prosecutor of the Karaganda region (1984-1994);
• First Deputy Prosecutor, prosecutor of the Turgai region (1994-1997);
• First Deputy Prosecutor of Almaty (1997-1999);
• State Inspector, Deputy Head of the State Law Department of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan (06.2000-03.2003);
• First Vice Minister of Justice (25.03.2003 – 24.05.2005);
• Deputy Head of the Department for Law Enforcement and Judicial Systems of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (25.05.2005-11.2005);
• First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Republic of Kazakhstan (22.02.2008-05.2017);
• Member of the Constitutional Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan (from 05.2017)
Other posts:
• Member of the State Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the fight against corruption (1999-2000);
• Chairman of the Qualification Collegium of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan (10.2001-07.2003);
• Member of the Supreme Judicial Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
• Member of the National Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Elective positions, deputy:
• Member of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Chairman of the Committee on Regional and Sectoral Development, Member of the State Commission on the division of powers between levels of government and improving intergovernmental relations, Member of the cooperation group with the Advisory Council (Majilis Shura) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with the US Congress, Senate of the French Republic, the Bundestag of the Federal Republic of Germany, Member of the Parliamentary Cooperation Committee “The Republic of Kazakhstan – European Union”, Member of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and the Environment (29.11.2005-22.02.2008);
• Chairman of the Kazakhstan Association of Prosecutors
State and international awards, prizes, honorary titles:
• Order: “Dank” 2nd degree (2011), “Qurmet” (2006);
• Medals, incl. “For contribution to the development of the legal profession” (06.2014);
• Honorary worker of the prosecutor’s office of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
• Certificate of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Moscow (17.07.2017)
Scientific, literary works, publications:
• Author of several publications
Military service, military and special ranks, cool ranks:
• Senior Counselor of Justice (1994), State Counselor of Justice, Grade 3 (05.05.2008);
• State Counselor of Justice, Grade 2 (06.05.2013)
