Galymzhan Zhakiyanov (Kazakh: ???????? ????????) is a Kazakh businessman and politician.
He owns several companies in Kazakhstan and has served as the governor of Semipalatinsk province.
He was imprisoned from 2002-2006 on charges of abuse of office.
He was born in 1963 in Eastern Kazakhstan.
He graduated from Moscow Bauman Moscow State Technical University in 1986 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
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Zhakiyanov worked for a time as a manager at a Soviet military plant.
Right before the breakup of the Soviet Union, he started with other partners own business operating a coal and natural resources company in Kazakhstan.