Annageldi Yazmyradov, first deputy minister of water management of Turkmenistan, has been promoted to the post of minister of water management of Turkmenistan. Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov signed a decree to this effect yesterday, the Turkmenistan.ru correspondent reports from Ashgabat.

Annageldi Yazmyradov was born in the village of Zahmet of Babadayhan district of Akhal province in 1965. He got a diploma in irrigation from the Turkmen Agricultural University named after S.Niyazov in 1988.

He started working as the first class specialist at the production-technical department of Garagumcomplex association in the city of Tejen in 1982. After graduating from the university, he worked as engineer of hydraulic; head of the water management division of the department of irrigation systems of Tejen district; and head of the Tejen transportable mechanized unit of the Turkmenplodovoschtorg trust from 1988 to 1999.

In 1999-2005, he worked as head of the 23rd mechanized unit of the Akhalobagurlushyk industrial association in the city of Tejen, and as head of the industrial department of repair works of the Akhalsuvhojalyk industrial association of the ministry of water management of Turkmenistan.

From 2005 to 2007, he headed the Abadan Gurlushyk Onumleri enterprise of the association of construction, repair and industrial enterprises of the ministry of water management of Turkmenistan. In 2007, he was appointed first deputy minister of water management of Turkmenistan.