Mukar Cholponbayev

Mukar Shaltakovich Cholponbayev (Kyrgyz: Мукар Шалтакович Чолпонбаев; 29 March 1950 – 24 May 2020) was a Kyrgyzstani politician.

Mukar Cholponbayev
Мукар Чолпонбаев
Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Kyrgyzstan
In office 29 March 1995 – 15 November 1996
President	Askar Akayev
Prime Minister	Apas Jumagulov
Succeeded by	Usup Mukambayev
Minister of Justice
In office 1993–1995
President	Askar Akayev
Prime Minister	Apas Jumagulov
Preceded by	Usup Mukambaev
Succeeded by	Larisa Gutnichenko
Personal details
Born	Mukar Shaltakovich Cholponbayev (1950-03-29)29 March 1950 Oruktu village, Issyk-Kul Region, Kyrgyz SSR, USSR (now Kyrgyzstan)
Died	24 May 2020(2020-05-24) (aged 70) Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Life

Cholponbayev was born on 29 March 1950 in Issyk-Kul Region, Kyrgyz SSR. He graduated from Kyrgyz National University in 1976. From 1984 to 1991, he served as Deputy Head of the Legal Department of the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz SSR, and later was promoted to Head of the Legal Department.^{[citation needed]}

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, from 1991 to 1993, he served as the Head of Department of Justice of Chuy Region, and Head of the Presidential Administration Department. Later, he served as Minister of Justice (1993–95),^{[citation needed]} and the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Kyrgyzstan (1995–96).^[1]

He died in Bishkek on 24 May 2020, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Kyrgyzstan.^[2]