Askar Akaevich Akaev (born November 10, 1944, Chui Region, Kyrgyz SSR, USSR) is a Kyrgyz statesman and politician, now engaged in scientific activities in Moscow. From 1990 to 2005 - President of the Kyrgyz Republic (until 1991 - Kyrgyz SSR). In 1989-1990 - President of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR. Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

• In 1968 he graduated with honors from the Leningrad Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics and entered graduate school.
• In 1980 he defended his doctoral dissertation at the Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute.
• In 1984 he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR, in the same year he became an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR. Askar Akaev - professor, honorary doctor and foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has about 150 scientific papers, 43 articles, 7 inventions. He trained 20 candidates and 3 doctors of sciences. Seven of his students became winners of various prizes.
• In 1989-1990, President of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR.

Awards:

• Order of the Badge of Honor (1981)
• Pushkin Medal (August 23, 1999, Russia) - for his great contribution to the preservation and dissemination of Russian cultural heritage in the Kyrgyz Republic.
• Order of Dostyk (Friendship) I degree (Kazakhstan, December 10, 2001)
• Order of the Double White Cross I degree (Slovakia, December 2003)
• Laureate of the LKSM Prize of Kyrgyzstan (1977) - for a mathematical study of computer heating problems.
• Winner of the gold medal of N. D. Kondratiev 2012 "for an outstanding contribution to the development of social sciences."