Abdulhashim Mutalov

Abdulhashim Mutalovich Mutalov was born in 1947 in the settlement of Telyau in the Ohangaron District of the Tashkent Region. In 1965 he began work as a baker at Tashkent's bread-products plant no. 2 and then served in the Soviet Army. In 1976 he graduated from the All-Union Correspondence Institute of Food Industry in Moscow with a diploma as a technology engineer.

He worked at bread-products plants in Tashkent, in 1979–1986 was director of the plant in the Ohangaron District, and in 1986/1987–1991 was deputy minister and then minister of bread products of the Uzbek SSR. He was a CPSU member in 1980–1991 and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan.

From 10 September 1991 he was Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan. From 13 January 1992 to 21 December 1995 he was the first Prime Minister of Uzbekistan; in January 1992 he headed the commission investigating the student unrest in Tashkent. In December 1995 he was relieved of the post and succeeded by Utkir Sultanov.

He then chaired the board of the state corporation Uzdonmahsulot and is now retired. He has been awarded the Order «Dostlik», the Order of the Red Banner of Labour and the Medal «For Labour Distinction». Sources disagree on his exact birth date (14 February or 27 April), so only the year is given.