"Appoint Zhanseit Tuimebayev as akim of the Turkestan region, relieve him of the post of akim of the South Kazakhstan region," reads the document.
Zh. Tuimebayev, 16, worked as akim of the South Kazakhstan region.
By the order of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev Shymkent got the status of the city of Republican significance, Turkestan became a regional center.
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