Gennady Kolbin

Biography:

Gennady Kolbin was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakh SSR from December 16 1986 to June 22 1989. Kolbin had not worked in the Kazakh SSR prior to his appointment. He was appointed by Mikhail Gorbachev in an attempt to root out corruption in the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR. As an outsider to Kazakhstan he was not well received there.