Vladislav Kosarev

Vladislav Borisovich Kosarev (; born 16 November 1937) is a Kazakh politician who served as a member of the Mäjilis, First Secretary and then Honorary Secretary of the Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan (QKHP) from 2004 to 2020 and the parliamentary leader of the QKHP from 2012 to 2018.

Biography

Early life Kosarev was born in the town of Volodarskoye in the North Kazakhstan Region of the Kazakh SSR. He worked as a tractor driver on the Borovsk State Farm in the Rusayevsk District and then served in the Soviet Army from 1956 to 1959. He graduated from the Omsk Agricultural Institute in 1968.

In 1999, he became the member of the Mäjilis from the 1st District of Akmola Region until 2004.

In 2004, after splitting from the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, together with T. A. Kenzhin and A. A. Kholodkov, Kosarev founded the Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan (QKHP) and was the First Secretary of the Central Committee until he resigned from his post on 1 June 2013. That same day, he was unanimously chosen to be the Honorary Secretary of the QKHP.

In the 2012 legislative elections, he was elected as the member of the Mäjilis, representing QKHP and was the party's parliamentary leader from 20 January 2012 until 17 September 2018, when he was succeeded by Aiqyn Qongyrov.

In 2015, Kosarev openly defended the ban on the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, claiming it was due to ignorance of the party leaders about the law.

On 11 November 2020, he voted against the renaming of the party but supported Qongyrov's candidacy as the leader of the party.