 Jeltoqsan

The Jeltoksan (), also spelled Zheltoksan or "December" of 1986 were riots that took place in Alma-Ata (present-day Almaty), Kazakhstan, in response to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's dismissal of Dinmukhamed Kunaev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan and an ethnic Kazakh, and his appointment of Gennady Kolbin, an outsider from the Russian SFSR.Some sources cite Kolbin's ethnicity as Russian, others as Chuvash.