Abstract:

It was D. Kazakhstan owes its modern, multi-level, multi-component industry to Kunaev. Having headed the republican party organization again in December 1964, Dinmukhamed Akhmedovich naturally continued his course towards the development of industries that had already become traditional for the economic structure of Kazakhstan. Perhaps no one else knew so thoroughly and in detail the state of domestic industry, its needs and requirements and the degree of integration into the all-Union industrial organism. And the degree of integration of republican industry into intra-Union economic relations was enormous.Having himself been an active organizer of large-scale industrial production in the country in previous decades, which was largely of a forced nature programmed for war, D.A. Kunaev could no longer change the existing situation with the base of industrial development of the republic, but he could significantly strengthen and strengthen it and contribute to the emergence of fundamentally new industries that did not exist before.

The Union center was fully aware of these specific features of its largest union republic after the RSFSR, taking into account its gigantic raw material resources and favorable military-strategic position, and took full advantage of all this, consolidating the one-sided structure of the republican industry. Not a single leader of a union republic in such conditions could go against the center without losing his position, or even his head, as in Stalin’s time.

But yes. During all the years of leadership of the republic, Kunaev managed to successfully combine the implementation of large-scale plans and gigantic projects outlined by the Union leadership with obvious and no less outstanding achievements in the field of socio-economic development of the republic he headed and improving the living conditions of representatives of all peoples living on the territory of Kazakhstan. By 1986, the Kazakh SSR had the third industrial and resource potential in the Union, which became the basis for further industrial development in the sovereign Republic of Kazakhstan.