Virily Editor
One of the most famous names in Kazakhstan today is undoubtedly Yerlan Nigmatulin. The enormous contribution of this entrepreneur to the country’s economy is beyond doubt. His path to success was long and difficult, and it is no exaggeration to say that he passed it with flying colors.
Life path
Yerlan Zayrullaevich Nigmatulin was born in 1962 in Karaganda in the family of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Residents of this Kazakh city have long been famous for their love of work and diligence, and Yerlan Nigmatulin fully acquired these qualities. After graduating from school, he became a student at the Karaganda Cooperative Institute, where he specialized in the analysis of economic activity and accounting. These knowledge and skills were very useful later, when he took up entrepreneurial activity, but higher education was not enough, and Nigmatulin Erlan Zayrullaevich received a second specialization, this time in the field of jurisprudence, with a degree from the Modern Humanitarian University. This was followed by work on the thesis and its defense – in 1999 he became a candidate of economic sciences.
Even before completing his studies in 1983, Yerlan Nigmatulin took his first steps in the professional world. His professional career began in the regional executive committee of Dzheskasgan, where he was entrusted with control and audit tasks. This was a very valuable experience, as it allowed him to acquire management skills and understand the principles by which the economy works. After a year of work, Yerlan Zairullaevich Nigmatulin became the head of the trading house Yer-Kanat. As a director of this company, he turned out to be an excellent manager, and his activity contributed to the expansion of the company.
The next important stage of his professional career was the foundation of Impulse LLP. Yerlan Nigmatulin headed this company in 1995 as the general director. This laid the foundation for the business empire that he was to build and manage.
Entrepreneurial activity
At present, Yerlan Nigmatulin is the owner of several enterprises in various branches of the economy, but one of the most important areas of Yerlan Nigmatulin’s business activity is industrial production. He is a shareholder of Karazhyra, a coal mining company, while Qaz Carbon, a company he founded, is a foundry. She produces a number of products:
Steel
Pig iron
Coke, which is reused in various enterprises of the ferroalloy industry.
Yerlan Nigmatulin attaches great importance to the technical equipment of his enterprises. They are equipped according to the latest state of science and technology, and the results of this approach speak for themselves: the coal produced by the enterprise has an extremely low ash content. The level of productivity is also first-class – production reaches three hundred tons per hour. The impeccable quality of coal is promoted not only by the high-tech production process, but also by the careful control that the products undergo at each stage of production.
However, the enormous quantity and impeccable quality of the products are not all that Nigmatulin Erlan has achieved through the use of high technology. No less important is the care for the environment. In the enterprises belonging to him, plants are used for maximum air purification.
The orientation towards an ecological approach in the organization of production is characteristic of all the projects that Yerlan Nigmatulin pursues in the course of his business activities. There is no doubt that the businessman has new achievements ahead of him, which will bring invaluable benefits to Kazakhstan.
