Zekeriya Aknazarov

Zekeria Sharafutdinovich Aknazarov (, ; 22 August 1924 – 2 April 2000) was a Soviet politician who was Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Bashkir ASSR (1962–1986).

Biography Aknazarov was born on the Yamashevo farm in the Zilair canton of the Bashkir ASSR (now this village of the Baimak district of Bashkortostan does not exist), the eldest child in the family of the peasant Sharafutdin Gilyazhevich Aknazarov, who was engaged in the preparation of boards.

From 1954 to 1962 - head of the department of party bodies of the Bashkir Regional Committee of the CPSU.

From February 1962 to January 1986 - Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Bashkir ASSR.

Deputy of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 6-9 convocations (1962–1978) from the Bashkir ASSR. He was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the 9th convocation from the October electoral district No. 511 of the Bashkir ASSR, a member of the Commission on Transport and Communications of the Council of Nationalities. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR and the Supreme Soviet of the BASSR. In 1966–1971 he was a member of the Central Auditing Commission of the CPSU.

In 1986 he retired.

On 2 April 2000, he died in Ufa. He was buried in the Muslim Cemetery. at the Gufran mosque next to his wife Fyodora Petrovna.