Malik Saparov

Malik Mukhamedzhanovich Sarapov (, ; 15 September 1958 – 19 June 2003 ) was a Kazakh lieutenant general who served as the Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan from 2001 to 2003.

Military career He was born on 15 September 1958 in the village of Kyzyltu, in the Almaty Region, into the family of a war veteran. In 1975 he graduated from the Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) Suvorov Military School, and in 1979 from the Alma-Ata Higher Combined Arms Command School. He began his officer career as a platoon commander in a training company in the Transbaikal Military District, where, he also served as a company commander in a motorized rifle regiment. He subsequently served in the Central Group of Forces as a motorized rifle company commander and chief of staff of a motorized rifle battalion. Lieutenant General Bulat Darbekov was appointed to succeed him in July 2003.

Awards

Order of Dank, 2nd degree (May 7, 2001)