500 Tenge Dinmukhamed 'Dimash' Akhmetuly Konayev

Dinmukhamed Konayev led Kazakhstan as First Secretary of the Communist Party from 1960 to 1986, making him one of the longest-serving republican leaders in Soviet history and a close associate of Brezhnev. His removal by Gorbachev in December 1986 — replaced by an ethnic Russian outsider, Gennady Kolbin — triggered the Jeltoqsan riots in Alma-Ata, among the first major nationalist uprisings in the late Soviet period. That event is now considered a precursor to Kazakh independence.

The commemorative was issued on the centenary of his birth.