Sultan Ibraimov

On 29 August 2019, Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov posthumously awarded him with the Hero of the Kyrgyz Republic award, the highest state award of Kyrgyzstan. Ibraimov Street in Bishkek was named in his honour in 1993 from its original name of Pravda Street, and Papan Reservoir is also officially named after him. There is also a memorial to Ibraimov near Osh Kyrgyz Drama Theater, also named after him.

On the night of 4 December 1980, Ibraimov, was fatally shot in his sleep while staying at his state-provided mansion in Cholpon-Ata, on Issyk-Kul in northern Kyrgyzstan. Ibraimov's wife, Reva, was awoken by the gunshots, and saw the killer jumping out the window. Ibraimov was 53 years old at the time of his death. Ibraimov's assassination remains shrouded in mysteries to this day. The specialised garrison for protection of government officials within the Kirghiz SSR was on leave, and the two policemen who were meant to be guarding the mansion were not present at the time. According to his daughter, Aynur, Ibraimov was coerced by his close allies within the Supreme Soviet into going to the mansion against his will.

On 25 August 1978, Ibraimov was promoted to Chairman of the Presidium of the Kirghiz Supreme Soviet. The promotion proved short-lived, for 5 months had not yet passed before he was again promoted, this time to Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kirghiz SSR. This put him in a powerful position, as the de jure head of government of Kirghizia.

In January 1968, Ibraimov was appointed as First Secretary of the Osh Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Kirghizia. Immediately following his taking power, he began a crackdown on corruption in the region, and greatly increased the development of infrastructure. During his ten-year tenure, several roads, residential buildings, hospitals, factories, and hydroelectric power plants were constructed. There was also expansion of canals and reservoirs, in an effort to prevent drought.

Sultan Ibraimovich Ibraimov (20 September 1927 – 4 December 1980) was a Soviet politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic from 22 December 1978 until his assassination in 1980. The slow movement of the investigation created distrust in the Soviet system during a period of intense corruption, and the eventual discovery of the perpetrator's identity as an ethnic Russian ethnonationalist exacerbated ethnic tensions. Since his death, Ibraimov has become an important figure in Kyrgyzstan.

Sultan Ibraimovich Ibraimov was born on 20 September 1927 in the village of Alchaluu, in the north of what was then the Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic of the Russian SFSR. During the Second World War, Ibraimov first worked on a local kolkhoz before getting a job as a tractor driver for a state company. Afterwards, he entered the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences, serving as a teacher from 1957 to 1959. From 1961 to 1966, Ibraimov was minister of Land Reclamation and Water Management in the government of Bolot Mambetov.