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{{Infobox military person
| name          = Sagadat Nurmagambetov
|birth_name=Sagadat Kozhahmetovich Nurmagambetov
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1924|5|25|df=y}}
| death_date    = {{death date and age|2013|9|24|1924|5|25|df=yes}}
| image         = 
| caption       =
| birth_place   = Kosym, [[Kazak ASSR]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]] <br> <small>(now in [[Akmola Region]], [[Kazakhstan]])</small>
| death_place   =[[Almaty]], Kazakhstan 
| placeofburial =
| nickname      = 
| allegiance    = {{flagicon|USSR}} [[Soviet Union]] (1942-1991) <br/> {{flagicon|Kazakhstan}} [[Kazakhstan]] (1991-1995)
| branch        = [[File:Red Army flag.svg|23px]] [[Red Army]] / [[Soviet Army]] <br/> [[File:Coat of arms military-of-kazakhstan.svg|23px]] [[Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan|Ground Forces of Kazakhstan]]
| serviceyears  = 1942 - 1991 <br/> 1991 - 1995
| rank          = [[Army general]] (Ret.)
| unit          = 
| commands      =
| battles       =
* [[World War II]]
** [[Battle of Berlin]]
| awards        = Soviet Union: <br/> {{Hero of the Soviet Union|1945}} [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]
* [[Order of Lenin]]
* [[Order of the October Revolution]]
* [[Order of the Red Banner]]
* [[Order of the Patriotic War]], 1st class
* [[Order of the Patriotic War]], 2nd class
* [[Order of the Red Star]] (2x)
* [[Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR]], 2nd class
* [[Order of the Red Banner of Labour]]
* [[Order of the Badge of Honour]]
Kazakhstan: <br/>
* [[Order of Otan]]
* {{Hero of the Kazakhstan}}
Russian Federation: <br/>
* [[Order of Friendship]]
Ukraine: <br/>
* [[Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Ukraine)|Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky]], 3rd class
and other awards
| laterwork     =
* Deputy of the [[Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR]] / Supreme Council of Kazakhstan, 1971-1994
* Chairman of the State Defense Committee of the [[Republic of Kazakhstan]], 1991-1992
* [[Minister of Defense]] of the [[Republic of Kazakhstan]], 1992-1995
* Adviser to the [[President of Kazakhstan]], 1995-1996
}}
 
'''Sagadat Kozhakhmetovich Nurmagambetov''' ({{lang-kz|Сағадат Қожахметұлы Нұрмағамбетов}}, ''Sağadat Qojaxmetulı Nurmağambetov'', ساعادات قوجاحمەتۇلى نۇرماعامتەتوۆ; {{lang-ru|Сагадат Кожахметович Нурмагамбе́тов}}, ''Sagadat Kožachmetovič Nurmagambetov''; 25 May 1924 &ndash; 24 September 2013) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] and [[Kazakhstan]]i [[general (military)|general]] who served as Chairman of Kazakhstan's State Defense Committee in 1991-1992 and Kazakhstan's first [[Minister of Defense]] following the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] in 1991, holding the office of Defense Minister from May 1992 to November 1995. He was an adviser to [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]] in 1995-1996. 
 
Nurmagambetov began his military career as a machine gun platoon commander in the [[Red Army]] in [[World War II]]. He was promoted to machine gun company and infantry battalion commander, earning the honorary title of [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] in February 1945. His battalion went on to storm the [[Reich Chancellory]] at the [[Battle of Berlin]] in April 1945. Nurmagambetov graduated from the [[Frunze Military Academy]] after World War II and rose to become one of the highest-ranked Kazakh officers in the peacetime [[Soviet Army]], attaining the rank of [[colonel-general]]. He retired from the military of Kazakhstan as an [[army general]] in 1995. Nurmagambetov was named a [[People's Hero of Kazakhstan]] in 1994, becoming the first Kazakhstani to receive this honor.

==Biography==
Nurmagambetov was born on 25 May 1924 in the settlement of Kosym in the [[Kazak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic]] of the [[Russian SFSR]] (later [[Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic]]), now in [[Akmola Region]] in [[Kazakhstan]].<ref name = "CentrAsia">[http://www.centrasia.ru/person2.php?&st=1096605424 "Nurmagambetov, Sagadat Kozhakhmetovich".] CentrAsia. Retrieved 30 September 2011. {{ru icon}}</ref> He joined the [[Red Army]] in 1942. He received accelerated [[machine gun]] officer's training at the 1st Turkestan Machine Gun School in [[Serhetabat|Kushka]], [[Turkmen SSR]] (now [[Serhetabat]] in [[Turkmenistan]]) and was sent to the front lines of the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front of World War II]] in April 1943. He led a [[machine gun]] [[platoon]], a machine gun [[company (military)|company]], and [[infantry]] [[battalion]] and was awarded the honorary title of [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] with the [[Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union]] (medal no. 5214) and the [[Order of Lenin]] by the [[Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR]] on 27 February 1945. He fought in the [[Battle of Berlin]] and led his battalion's troops in the storming of Berlin's [[Reich Chancellery]] in April 1945.<ref name = "CentrAsia"/>
 
Nurmagambetov attended the [[Frunze Military Academy]] from June 1946 until his graduation from the Academy in November 1949, continuing his military career as a senior operations section officer for the [[Turkestan Military District]] staff, a motorized rifle [[division (military)|division]]'s commanding officer and [[chief of staff]], [[Civil Defence Forces|Civil Defense Forces]] of the [[Kazakh SSR]] chief of staff, a deputy commanding officer of the [[Central Asian Military District]], and first deputy commander of the Soviet Union's [[Southern Group of Forces]] in [[Hungary]].<ref name = "CentrAsia"/> He was elected to serve as a deputy of Kazakhstan's [[Supreme Soviet]] from 1971 until 1994, and chosen to lead its committee on the disabled and military veterans' affairs in 1989.<ref name = "CentrAsia"/> He was appointed to head Kazakhstan's State Defense Committee by [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]] in October 1991. He was named Kazakhstan's first [[Minister of Defense]] following the State Defense Committee's reorganization as the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan in May 1992 and remained as Defense Minister in Nazarbayev's cabinet until retiring from the armed forces as an [[army general]] in November 1995.<ref name = "CentrAsia"/>

He was awarded Kazakhstan's highest official award, the newly established honorary title of [[People's Hero of Kazakhstan]], in 1994{{spaced ndash}}the first Kazakh to attain the honor.<ref name = "BKZ">[http://www.biografia.kz/famous/722 "Nurmagambetov, Sagadat Kozhakhmetovich".] Biografia.kz. Retrieved 30 September 2011. {{ru icon}}</ref> He was an adviser to Nazarbayev from 1995 to 1996.<ref name = "CentrAsia"/> He died 24 September 2013.<ref name="Obituary">[http://www.radiotochka.kz/news/full/652.html Sagadat Nurmagambetov's obituary] {{kz icon}}</ref> His son Talgat is a [[major-general]] in the reserve.<ref name = "CentrAsia"/>

==Honors==
;Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:
* [[Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union]]<ref name = "BKZ"/>
* [[Order of Lenin]]<ref name = "BKZ"/>
* [[Order of the October Revolution]]<ref name = "BKZ"/>
* [[Order of the Red Banner]]<ref name = "BKZ"/>
* [[Order of the Patriotic War]], 1st class and 2nd class<ref name = "BKZ"/>
* [[Order of the Red Star]], twice<ref name = "BKZ"/>
* [[Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR]], 3rd class<ref name = "BKZ"/>
* [[Order of the Red Banner of Labour]], twice<ref name = "BKZ"/>
* [[Order of the Badge of Honour]]<ref name = "BKZ"/>
* [[Medal for Combat Service]]
* [[Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin"|Medal "For Military Valour. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of VI Lenin"]]
* [[Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR"]]
* [[Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"]]
* [[Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"]]
* [[Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"]]
* [[Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"]]
* [[Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"]]
* [[Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"]]
* [[Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"]]
* [[Medal "For Strengthening Military Cooperation"]] 
* [[Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"]]
* [[Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"]]
* [[Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"]]
* [[Medal "For Impeccable Service"]] 1st, 2nd and 3rd classes
 
;Republic of Kazakhstan:
* [[People's Hero of Kazakhstan]]<ref name = "BKZ"/>
* [[Order of Otan]]<ref name = "BKZ"/>
* Medal "Astana"
* Medal "10 Years of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
* Medal "10 years of independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
* [[Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"]]
* [[Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"]]

;Russian Federation:
* [[Order of Friendship]], twice<ref name = "BKZ"/>
* [[Zhukov Medal]]

;Ukraine
* [[Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Ukraine)|Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky]], 3rd class (2004)<ref>[http://news.liga.net/news/N0411734.html ''"Prezident nagradil ordenom Bogdana Khmelnitskogo eks-ministra oborony Kazakhstana"''.] Retrieved 30 September 2011. {{ru icon}}</ref>
* Honour of the President of Ukraine
* Medal "Defender of the Motherland"
* Jubilee medal "60 years of Ukraine's liberation from Nazi invaders"

;Bulgaria
* Order "September 9, 1944", 1st class with swords.

;Poland
* Golden [[Cross of Merit (Poland)|Cross of Merit]]
* [[Pro Memoria Medal|Medal Pro Memoria]]

;Mongolia
* Medal "30 Years of Victory over Japan's militarists"

Honorary Citizen of [[Tselinograd]], [[Alma-Ata]] and [[Donetsk]].

==References==
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