Kadyr Gulyamov
Kadyr Gafurovich Gulamov is an Uzbek politician who has served as Minister of Defence of Uzbekistan. He was the first and only civilian Minister of Defense of Uzbekistan.Biography
He was born in Tashkent in February 1945. He is the son of the Soviet-Uzbek poet Gʻafur Gʻulom. In 1963 he began his studies at Tashkent State University before being sent to the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan in 1968. In the 30 years that followed, he worked as an official in the academy, becoming the Chief Scientific Secretary in 1999. He held his first government position that same year, when he was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense and Rector of the Academy of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan. He became the first civilian minister of defense of the country in 2000, as well as concurrently State Advisor to the President Islam Karimov. He was dismissed from this post in 2005, and has been leading researcher of the Physics-Sun Association since 2006.
