Rakhimzhan Abylkasymovich Kabashev (born November 17, 1939) is an Academician of the International Academy of Transport, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, and Founder of the Kazakh Automobile and Road Institute named after L.B. Goncharov, one of the leading higher education institutions in the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of road and transport engineering.

He was born in the village of Volodarskoye in Akmola region.

He worked as a mechanic and technician. In 1963, he graduated from the Tomsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

In 1965, he entered postgraduate studies at the Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University (MADI), which he completed in 1968 by defending his Candidate of Technical Sciences dissertation. He worked as a head of a design group and participated in the development and implementation of self-propelled equipment at the mines of the Zhezkazgan Mining and Metallurgical Combine named after K.I. Satpayev.

He taught at KazNTU named after K. Satpayev (1969-1980), KazGASU (1980-1990), AADI (1990-1996), KazATK.

Associate Professor, Dean of the Higher Engineering School (ENIT) of the Republic of Tunisia.

Co-author of more than 300 scientific papers, including 14 monographs, textbooks and teaching aids for universities, which are widely used in the educational process when training engineers in the specialties of "Lifting and transport, construction and road machines", "Mechanization and automation of construction". Most of his scientific papers are devoted to problems in the field of mechanical engineering, included in the target integrated scientific and technical programs "New construction and road machines".

Co-author of 25 inventions.

He is fluent in German and French.

Awards: Medal "Veteran of Labor", Medal "For Merit in the Development of Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan", Honorary Badge "Excellent Educationist of the Republic of Kazakhstan", Honored Worker of Kazakhstan, Order of Parasat.

Merits:

• creation of a scientific, innovative, educational and production complex (NIOPK), uniting over 20 enterprises and institutions of the road industry of Kazakhstan, which made it possible to introduce dual education at KazADI;
• creation of the Kazakh-Belgian Association "Howest University - KazADI" for science and education;
• International agreements on scientific and technical cooperation have been established with 13 leading educational, scientific and production organizations of the road industry: MADI STU (Moscow); Rezekne University (Latvia), SibADI (Omsk), Tashkent Automobile and Roads Institute, Ghent University (Belgium), Silesian Technical University (Poland), etc;
• KazADI is an associate member of the Intergovernmental Council of CIS Road Builders;
• supervision of 99 doctoral and candidate dissertations, including from Russia, Germany, Jordan, Kampuchea, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, trained 12 doctors and 18 candidates of technical sciences, over 200 master's students and engineers who work in leading universities, at enterprises of Kazakhstan, near and far abroad
• creation of scientific schools "Wear of working bodies of earthmoving machines" and "Forecasting the parameters of lifting and transport, construction and road machines";
• development and implementation into operation at enterprises of the Republic of Kazakhstan of an underground bulldozer, a scraper with a plow-type bucket, removable excavator tooth tips, two installations for testing materials for wear, a working element for clearing ice from highways, a machine and equipment for reusing asphalt concrete pavements, special-purpose machines for developing mudflows and landslides, a DC-1KL crusher, road rollers with adaptive working elements; a hand-held NC-1KL machine, an installation for preparing and storing liquid anti-icing reagents, etc.
• head and direct executor of research and development and contractual work worth more than 300 million tenge under the programs of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, certification and technical inspection of local roads of Kazakhstan.
• more than 50 passports of highways of enterprises of the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Kazakhstan were prepared;
• scientific works of Kabashev R.A. received international recognition, he repeatedly spoke at international conferences and symposiums in Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France, the USA, Finland, China, and Japan.