Chairman of the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan Abdrassilov Bolatbek Serikbayevich presented to the staff of the Institute of History and Ethnology named after Valikhanov a new director - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Kabuldinov Ziyabek Yermukhanovich.

Kabuldinov Ziyabek Yermukhanovich is appointed to the post of director on the decision of the competitive commission on selection of candidates for vacant positions of heads of the republican state enterprises.

Kabuldinov Ziyabek graduated from Omsk State University in the specialty “History”, Kazakh Institute of Law and International Relations in the specialty “Jurisprudence”.

2003-2004 he worked as the head of the department of ancient and medieval history of Pavlodar State University named after S. Toraigyrov.

2004-2011 he worked for the Eurasian National University named after L.N. Gumilyov where he was the head of the department of history, the adviser to the rector, the pro-rector for educational work, the head of the Department of World History and Archeology, the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and the pro-rector for administrative and economic work.

From 2011 to 2017 he was the chief researcher, professor of the department of history of Kazakhstan and director of the “Eurasia” Research Center of the ENU.

Ziyabek Yermukhanovich is the author of 5 monographs, 7 teaching aids and more than 450 scientific publications.

Translated by Raushan MAKHMETZHANOVA