Zhantoro Satybaldiyev

Zhantoro Zholdoshevich Satybaldiyev (; born 6 January 1956) is a Kyrgyz politician who was Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan from September 2012 until March 2014.

Early life and education Satybaldiyev was born in Osh, Soviet Union in 1956. He holds a bachelor's degree engineering and construction from Frunze Polytechnic Institute’s which he received in 1979. However, Satybaldiyev traveled to the mine on 1 October 2012 and gave assurances that it would not be nationalized. Some observers noted that to make good on promises of reducing poverty, nationalization of this company would not make sense.

On 30 May 2013 protesters stormed the mine demanding its nationalization, 50 people were injured. In response Satybaldiyev stated that the government would find ways to increase revenues from the mine, whether they be through taxes or otherwise.

Post-premiership Satybaldiev was sentenced to seven years in prison on corruption charges stemming from his involvement in a 2013 project to modernize the Bishkek Thermal Power Station. It is alleged that several Kyrgyz officials lobbied on behalf of a Chinese company which performed shoddy work, resulting in the devastating failure of the city's heating and power systems on the coldest day of 2018.