Honorary Rector

Tuyakbay Rysbekov is a Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Honorary Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Honorary Rector of the Makhambet Utemisov University of Western Kazakhstan. During his scientific and pedagogical activity he published more than 760 scientific and scientific-methodical publications, including more than 40 monographs and essays, textbooks and methodical tools.\

General teaching experience: 50 years

Born in 1947 in Akkol village, Talas district, Zhambyl region.

EDUCATION:

1971 – graduated from the Kazakh National University na­med after Kirov (now Al-Farabi Kazakh National University);

1977 – graduated from the Department of History, Kazakh State University.

1990 – Defended Ph.D. thesis as a researcher at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1965-1966 – primary school teacher at Ush-Aral secondary school;

1971-1973 – teacher of history at the Ural Pedagogical Institute named after A.S. Pushkin;

1973-1974 – Senior Lecturer of the General History Department of the History Faculty of the Ural Pedagogical Institute named after A.S. Pushkin;

1974 – 1977 – postgraduate student of the Department of History of the Kazakh SSR of the Order of the Banner of Labor of the State University named after S.M. Kirov;

1977 – 1979 Senior Lecturer, Department of the USSR, Ural Pedagogical Institute named after. A.S. Pushkin;

1979 – Associate Professor, History Department, Ural Pedagogical Institute;

1979 – 1989 Associate Professor, Head of the Department of History of the USSR, Ural Pedagogical Institute named after A.S. Pushkin;

1988 – 1991 Dean of the Faculty of History and Pedagogy of the Ural Pedagogical Institute named after A.S. Pushkin;

1991 – Doctor of historical sciences;

1991 – 1996 Rector of the Ural Pedagogical Institute named after A.S. Pushkin;

1992 – professor;

1993 – awarded the Order of Parasat;

1995 – Academician of the Academy of Humanities of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

1996 – Academician of the Social Academy of Kazakhstan;

1996 – Honored Worker of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

1996 – 2000 – Rector of the West Kazakhstan Humanitarian University;

1998 – honorary citizen of the city of the Urals;

2000 – 2002 – First Vice-Rector of the West Kazakhstan Humanitarian University, Head of the Department of History of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

2002 – Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Higher School of Kazakhstan;

2002 – 2003 – Secretary of the West Kazakhstan Regional Maslikhat;

2003 – 2011 – Rector of the West Kazakhstan State University named after M. Utemisov;

2007 – Academician of the International Eurasian Economic Academy of Sciences;

2007 – Honorary Educator of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

2007 – Gold medal named after A. Baitursynov;

2007 – Honored Sportsman of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

2010 – Academician of the European Academy of Natural Sciences;

2011 – Advisor to the Rector of the West Kazakhstan State University named after M. Utemisov;

2013 – "Best University Tea­cher – 2013";

2011 – 2016 Advisor to the Rector, Head of the Department of History of the Republic of Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan State University named after M. Utemisov;

2016 – 2021 – Advisor to the Rector of the West Kazakhstan State University named after M. Utemisov.

2017 – Honorary citizen of Kaztalovsky district, West Kazakhstan region.

Nurbek NURZHAN