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Amir Ishemgulov (Russian: Амир Минниахметович Ишемгулов; born May 22, 1960 in Bashkortostan, RSFSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian biologist and politician of Bashkir ethnicity, Doctor of Biological Sciences, professor. He is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the World Qoroltai of the Bashkirs, and Director General of the Research Center for Beekeeping and Apitherapy of The Republic of Bashkortostan. He also is a member of the State Assembly of the Republic of Bashkortostan and a Member of the Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences and Arts.
He is a distant relative of the writer Zainab Biisheva. She took part in his upbringing. He is ethnically Bashkir. In 1984 he graduated with honors from the Bashkortostan Institute of Agricultural Sciences.
Since 1998, the Director of the Research Center for Beekeeping and Apitherapy of The Republic of Bashkortostan, he has initiated the creation of the Center.
In 2005, Ishemgulov defended his doctoral dissertation and earned the degree of Doktor nauk and in 2006 he received the title of Professor. Currently he is a professor in his alma mater, now known as Bashkir State Agrarian University.
He was elected to the State Assembly of the Republic of Bashkortostan in 2013, Member of the Party "United Russia".
He also Honored Man of agriculture of Republic Bashkortostan.
He is married, has a daughter.