Baktybek Bekbolotov

Baktybek Asankaliyevich Bekbolotov (; born 15 October 1964) is a Kyrgyz lieutenant general who was the Secretary of the Security Council of Kyrgyzstan from 15 May 2025 to 1 December 2025.

Biography Baktybek Bekbolotov was born in the village of Tyup, Issyk-Kul Region on 15 October 1964. He is a member of the Kyrgyz tribe Bugu. He headed the Military Institute of the Armed Forces of Kyrgyzstan from 2012 to 2014.

From 2014 to 2015, he completed a full course of study at the Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, after which he was appointed commander of the 8th Guards Motorized Rifle Division named after Hero of the Soviet Union, Major General Ivan Panfilov. In 2017, he was appointed Chief of Staff - First Deputy Commander of the Ground Forces of Kyrgyzstan, and then later retired from the army. He served as Chairman of the Board of JSC "Bishkek Machine-Building Plant". At the time of his appointment, he had the rank of colonel to major general and was promoted on 7 September. Together with other members of the Cabinet of Ministers, he received a vote of confidence from the Parliament (Zhogorku Kenesh) on 13 October and took the oath on the same day.

The press associated the appointment of Bekbolotov with the growing tension in the region caused by the seizure of power by the Taliban in Afghanistan.