# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mukhtar-ablyazov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:42:16.948Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mukhtar-ablyazov"
name: "Mukhtar Ablyazov"
slug: "mukhtar-ablyazov"
description: "Mukhtar Qabyluly Ablyazov is a Kazakh opposition leader, businessman and political activist who served as chairman of Bank Turan Alem, and is a co-founder and a leader of the unregistered political party Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (QDT). He was also the former head of the state-owned Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company (KEGOC) as well as briefly holding the position of Minister for Energy, Industry, and Trade under Balgimbayev's cabinet before resigning from and joining the opposition against President Nursultan Nazarbayev. In November 2001, he, along with other former Kazakh government officials founded the Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (QDT). As result, Ablyazov was imprisoned in March 2002 over accusations of financial fraud and political abuse until being pardoned by Nazarbayev in 2003. After being released from prison, he ceased his formal political activities with the opposition."
tagline: "Kazakh politician and businessman, leader of the opposition movement Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mukhtar_Ablyazov_(2019-23-10).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1963-05-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           68.91
  momentum:             0.08137432188065101
  historical:           11.92042
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 44
totalFollowers: 918000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ablyazovMK"
    handle:    "ablyazovMK"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/mukhtarablyazov/"
    handle:    "mukhtarablyazov"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/MuhtarAblazov"
    handle:    "MuhtarAblazov"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://ablyazov.org"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf0jMvh9QJZrR3sKkyHDjNQ"
    handle:    "@ablyazovlive"
    followers: 918000
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    title: "Мухтар Аблязов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مختار أبليازوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مختار ابليازوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muxtar_%C6%8Fb%C3%BClyazov"
    title: "Muxtar Əbülyazov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%85%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%90%D0%B1%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Мухтар Аблязов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muchtar_Abljazov"
    title: "Muchtar Abljazov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muchtar_%C3%84bljasow"
    title: "Muchtar Äbljasow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukhtar_Ablyazov"
    title: "Mukhtar Ablyazov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A2%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "مختار آبلیازوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moukhtar_Abliazov"
    title: "Moukhtar Abliazov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C5%ABhtar_%C3%84blyazov"
    title: "Mūhtar Äblyazov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D2%B1%D1%85%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80_%D2%9A%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%8B%D0%BB%D2%B1%D0%BB%D1%8B_%D3%98%D0%B1%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Мұхтар Қабылұлы Әблязов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B1%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%85%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Аблязов, Мухтар Кабулович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhtar_Ablyazov"
    title: "Muhtar Ablyazov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4054802"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump