BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 3. Murat Mukhanov
has been appointed Minister of Emergency Situations of
Kazakhstan.
According to the press service of the Kazakh president, the
corresponding decree was signed by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
Mukhanov replaces Chingis Arinov, who previously held the
post.
Mukhanov was born in 1985 in Mangystau Region. He graduated from
the Kokshetau Technical Institute of the Ministry of Emergency
Situations of Kazakhstan and the Saint Petersburg University of the
State Fire Service of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for
Civil Defense.
He began his career in 2006 as a chief specialist at the
Regulatory and Technical Department of the Directorate for State
Control and Supervision in the Field of Emergency Situations in
Mangystau Region. From 2006 to 2014, he held various positions
within the Department of Emergency Situations of Mangystau
Region.
Mukhanov served as Head of the Department for Control and
Preventive Activities in Fire Safety from 2014 through 2017, and
later as Head of the relevant Directorate at the Department of
Emergency Situations of Mangystau Region.
From 2017 to 2020, he served as Deputy Head of the Department of
Emergency Situations of Mangystau Region, and from 2020 to 2023, he
headed the department.
From 2023 through 2024, Mukhanov served as Acting Deputy
Chairman of the Fire Service Committee of the Ministry of Emergency
Situations of Kazakhstan.
He headed the Department of Emergency Situations of Mangystau
Region from April 2024. In June 2026, he was appointed Head of the
Staff of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
