He was the President of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences (1986–87) and a Deputy of The Supreme Soviet of the USSR, as well as being a Doctor of Sciences (1977), Professor (1980), Lenin Prize laureate (1976), Academian of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR (1983), Founder of the Kazakh Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and Member (and Chairman of the Kazakh branch) of the Soviet Peace Fund.