Bolot Ayushiyev was born on 19 June 1949 in the village of Urda-Aga, Aginsky Buryat Autonomous Okrug. He graduated from the
Kuibyshev Planning Institute in 1972, and the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1990. He worked as a senior economist and chairman of the planning commission of the Aginsky Buryat regional executive committee, head of the financial department of the Duldurginsky and Aginsky regional executive committees. From 1982 to 1985, he was the Deputy Chairman of the
Aginsky District Executive Committee. From 1985 to 1988, he was the Chairman of the
Mogoytuysky District Executive Committee. From 1988 to 1990, he was the head of the financial department of the Aginsky Buryat regional executive committee. Between 1990 and 1993, Ayushiyev was a
people's deputy of the Russian Federation, and a member of the
Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet, Commission on budget, plans, taxes and prices, Constitutional Commission. He was part of the Sovereignty and Equality faction. In April 1990, he was elected chairman of the Aginsky Buryat District Council of People's Deputies; in 1993 he was elected a deputy of the
Federation Council of the first convocation, and was a member of the Committee on Budget, Tax Policy, Financial, Currency and Customs Regulation, Banking. On 13 January 1996, Ayushiyev was appointed governor (head) of the
Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug. On 6 February 1997, he was removed from office two weeks before the re-election of the head of the district administration. In 1997, he had been the Deputy Head of the
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