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'''Gennady Kolbin''' (Геннадий Колбин, [[1927]]-[[1998]]) was the first secretary of the Central Committee of [[Communist Party]] of [[Kazakh SSR]] from [[December 16]], [[1986]] to [[June 22]],[[1989]].

Kolbin was an ethnic [[Chuvash]] from [[Russia]] and had not worked in the Kazakh SSR prior to his appointment as the first secretary. He was appointed by [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] in an attempt to rout out corruption in the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR.

As an outsider to Kazakhstan, he was not well received there. His appointment resulted in violent protests in the Kazakh capital [[Almaty]] and other cities, with several protesters killed and hundreds injured. In modern Kazakhstan this revolt is called [[Zheltoksan]] meaning December in [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]]. It is reported that the outgoing first secretary, [[Dinmukhamed Kunayev]], participiatedparticipated in organizing the protests, which involved 60,000 protesters [http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/kazakhstan/hypermail/200204/0053.shtml].

In June 1989, Kolbin was replaced by Kazakh [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]]. Kolbin was then transferred to a position in [[Moscow]].