Mirzoyev Knyaz Ibragimovich - The vice-chairman of Kazakhstan People Assembly. President of RSA “Kurds association of the RK “Barbang” was born on May 1, 1947 in Reyganla village, Masissky region, Armenia.
He graduated from the philological faculty at H.Abovyan Armenian State University in 1970. He is a Philologist-Orientalist, doctor of Philological Sciences, professor, Academician of the International High School Academy of Science (IHS AS), Academician of the Academy of Social Science (Kazakhstan).
1970-1990 – the Teacher, the Head of the Department at H.Abovyan Armenian State University.
Since 1990-currently – the professor, the Head of the Eastern Philology Department, the director of the World Languages Center, the vice rector at Abay Kazakh National Pedagogical University.
In 1990 he became the first vice-president of the USSR Kurds Association.
Since 2002 – the president of “Kurds association of the RK “Barbang”. And he was reelected as the chairman of the Association in 2013.
Social work: The member of Council of People’s Assembly of Kazakhstan, the President of “Kurds association of the RK “Barbang”. K.I.Mirzoyev takes active part in social and political life of the Republic of Kazakhstan. From the first days of organizing the Kazakhstan People Assembly, constantly participates in its life (more than 20 years). He regularly stands out in republican, international mass media, espousing the domestic and foreign policy led by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N.A. Nazarbayev, propagandizing carried-out social and economic reforms, the Kazakhstan model of an interethnic, interconfessional consent and Kazakhstan-2050 Strategy. For many years under his leadership a number of urgent actions on an international, interconfessional consent, especially among the Kurdish Diaspora on development of its culture, literature, language were realised. He is known researcher of Oriental Literature, the founder and the Head of the Kazakhstan Kurdists School, the editor-in-chief of literary and art, scientific and socially educational magazine “Nubar”, the board member of the Kazakhstan Writers Union, the representative of the International PEN club across Kazakhstan and Central Asia, the member of the number of World Kurdish Research Institutes (Paris, Brussels, Berlin and Iraq Kurdistan Science Academy), etc/ he is an author of more than 300 works, including 11 monographs, the author of the first textbook “Kurdish Language” (2-9 grades) and New Generation TMC on the Kurdish language, approved by the Ministry of Education and Science (2006), “Shygys adebiyeti” (lecture courses, Almaty, 2007), “Literature for multinational population of Kazakhstan in days of independence” (Almaty, 2012), etc.
He perfectly knows Turkish, Persian, Kazakh, Russian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish languages.
Awards: Award “Kurmet” (1998). Medals: “10 years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan” Jubilee Medal (2001), “10 years of the Constitution of Kazakhstan” Jubilee Medal (2005), “10 years of Astana city” (2008). “A presidential grant of RK” (2005,2006, 2007), APK “Altyn Birlik” gold medal (2010), “Kazakstannyn enbek sinirgen kairatkeri (2011), “the Lomonosov’s Award, Moscow (2009), ”20 years of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan” Jubilee Meadl (2011), a number of diplomas given by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
He is married, has five children: 2 daughters and 3 sons.
