Shaken Niyazbekov
Şäken Oñlasynūly Niazbekov (12 November 1938 – 16 August 2014) was a Kazakh artist who designed the flag of Kazakhstan. Niazbekov was born on 12 November 1938 in Dzambul (present-day Taraz). Following secondary school, he entered Leningrad art-industrial college.
Also recorded as Shaken Onlasynovich Niyazbekov · Shaken Onlasynuly Niyazbekov
Shaken Niyazbekov
- Name
- Şäken Niazbekov
- Birthplace
- Taraz, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
- Died
- 16 August 2014
- Place of death
- Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Born
- 1938 · Taraz.
- Nationality
- Kazakhstan · Soviet Union
- Occupation
- painter
- Education
- Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design
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Şäken Oñlasynūly Niazbekov (12 November 1938 – 16 August 2014) was a Kazakh artist who designed the flag of Kazakhstan. Niazbekov was born on 12 November 1938 in Dzambul (present-day Taraz). Following secondary school, he entered Leningrad art-industrial college.
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While studying in this college, he participated in restoration works in the Hermitage, Saint Isaac's Cathedral and Petrodvorets. Niazbekov's project of the national flag of Kazakhstan was chosen among more than 600 proposals.
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• Name — Şäken Niazbekov • Native Name — Шәкен Ниязбеков • Birthplace — Taraz, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union • Died — 16 August 2014 • Place of death — Almaty, Kazakhstan
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1938
Shaken Niyazbekov was born on 12 October 1938.
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Shaken Niyazbekov died on 16 August 2014.
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