First prezident of Uzbekistan

First prezident of Uzbekistan
Islam Abduganievich Karimov was born on January 30, 1938 in the city of Samarkand.
He graduated from the Central Asian Polytechnic Institute and the Tashkent Institute of National Economy. He was a mechanical engineer and economist.
He began his career at the Tashkent Agricultural Machinery Plant in 1960. Later, he worked as an engineer, a leading design engineer at the Tashkent Aviation Production Association named after Chkalov. In 1966, he joined the State Planning Committee of the Uzbek SSR, where he went from chief specialist to first deputy chairman of the State Planning Committee.

In 1983, Islam Karimov was appointed Minister of Finance of the Uzbek SSR, in 1986 - Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Uzbek SSR, Chairman of the State Planning Committee. From 1986 to 1989 he served as First Secretary of the Kashkadarya Regional Party Committee, and from June 1989 as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan.

On March 24, 1990, at a session of the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR, he was elected the President of the Uzbek SSR. On August 31, 1991, Karimov declared a historic event - the state independence of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Islam Karimov was awarded the title of "Hero of Uzbekistan" for his great contribution to the establishment of a sovereign and independent Uzbekistan, the creation of a people's democratic state governed by the rule of law, ensuring civil peace and national accord.

Islam Karimov , in full Islam Abduganievich Karimov, also spelled Islom Abduganievich Karimov, (born January 30, 1938, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, U.S.S.R.—died September 2, 2016, Tashkent, Uzbekistan), Uzbek politician who became president of Uzbekistan in 1991.

Karimov earned degrees in engineering and economics from the Central Asian Polytechnic and the Tashkent Institute of National Economy. Later he became a member of the Academy of Sciences in Uzbekistan. He worked first as an aircraft engineer (1961–66) before entering government employment in 1966 as an economic planner for the Uzbek state planning office.

Karimov became first secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan in 1989 and was elected president of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic in 1990. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, he was elected president of independent Uzbekistan. In 1995 a national referendum extended his presidency to 2000, when he was reelected to another five-year term. In 2002 another national referendum extended his presidency to 2007. Although the Uzbek constitution prohibits presidents from serving more than two terms in office, Karimov was elected to a third term in 2007. The international community largely agreed that the elections that had placed Karimov in office were neither free nor fair. Karimov won another term in 2015 amid similar concerns regarding the fairness of elections.

Islam Karimov died on September 2, 2016, at the age of 78 in Tashkent, and was buried in Samarkand on September 3.