Ilmi Umerow
Date of Birth: 03.08.1957
Ilmi Rustemovich Umerov
Ilmi Rustemovich Umerov is a Crimean Tatar politician, Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People since 2015, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of Crimea from 2002 to 2005, and Chairman of the administration of the Bakhchysarai district from 2005 to 2014.
Place of Birth. Education.
Ilmi Umerov was born on August 3, 1957, in the stanitsa of Achunbabaeva in the Tashlak district of the Fergana region of the Uzbek SSR. In 1980, he graduated from Andijan Medical Institute with a degree in Nursing.
Professional Career.
1980-1981 - obstetrician in the city hospital in Fiagand. 1981-1984 - obstetrician-gynecologist in the city hospital in Margilan, Fergana region. 1984 - anesthesiologist-resuscitator at the medical unit of the Fiagand Silk Factory. In 1986, he moved to Krasnodar Krai, where he lived until June 1988 and worked as an anesthesiologist-resuscitator in the district hospital of Crimea-Central.
Political Career.
Member of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People since 1991. 1991-1994 and 1998-2002 - Chairman of the Bakhchysarai regional Mejlis. In May 1994, he was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and was a member of the permanent committee on nationality policy and the problems of deported citizens. From October of the same year until January 1997, he served as Deputy Prime Minister in the Government of Crimea, and from January to June 1997 as Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic. In 1997, he was elected Chairman of the World Assembly of Turkic Peoples in Izmir (Turkey), a position he held until 1999. From January 2000 to May 2002, he was Deputy Chairman of the Bakhchysarai district administration. From May 2002 to June 2005, he worked as Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of AR Crimea. In 2004-2005, he was a representative of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko in electoral district No. 10.
On July 5, 2005, Ilmi Umerov took the position of chairman of the Bakhchysarai district administration. During the annexation of the AR of Crimea and Sevastopol by Russia in the spring of 2014, Umerov officially declared that he does not recognize the separatists and called on citizens not to participate in the referendum on March 16. After the illegal annexation of Crimea to Russia, he continued to serve as the chairman of the ROA, but on August 19, 2014, he voluntarily resigned. He later noted that he made this decision, not wishing to swear allegiance to Russia as a public official.
On March 21, 2015, he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People.
Persecution by the Russian Authorities.
In May 2016, the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People reported Umerov's detention by officers of the Federal Security Service of Russia in Crimea. In August 2016, a court in Russian-occupied Crimea decided to subject Ilmi Umerov to compulsory psychiatric examination. In September 2016, the district court in Bakhchysarai in Crimea sentenced Umerov to a fine of 750 rubles for participating in a 'banned assembly' of the Mejlis.
On September 27, a Russian court in Crimea sentenced Ilmi Umerov to 2 years in a penal colony and banned him from public activity for 2 years. On October 25, Umerov and another detained Crimean Tatar politician, Akhtem Chiygoz, were transferred to Turkey and released from serving their sentences.
On October 27, 2017, Akhtem Chiygoz and Ilmi Umerov returned to Ukraine.
Awards.
In 2003, Ilmi Umerov was awarded the title of Honored Worker of the Local Government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Order 'For Services' II class (August 23, 2017). Order 'For Services' III class (2005).
Family. Wife Majie, son Suleiman, daughters Zera and Aisha.
03.08.2022.