The title of Honorary Citizen of Pavlodar was awarded to the Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Metallurgy, Mechanical Engineering and Transport of Pavlodar State University, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Professor Tyuleugazy Tokilovich Toktaganov.

Tyuleugazi Tokilovich is a graduate of the machine-building faculty of the Pavlodar Industrial Institute. All his work is closely connected with his native university.

In 1987 he was elected as a dean of the faculty and for 30 years remained his permanent leader.

On his initiative, the first student design bureau, an industry research laboratory, were created. Developmentsof T.Toktaganov were introduced in Pavlodar industrial and Altai polytechnical institutes, Altai motor, Pavlodar tractor and Cheboksary aggregate plants and at the Chelyabinsk branch of Research car and tractor institute.

In addition, Tyuleugazi Tokilovich actively participates in public life of the city, region and country. He was elected as a deputy of the District Council, he is a member of the Scientific and Technical Council of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Industry of Pavlodar region, the president (on a voluntary basis) of the Association of ALE of machine-builders of Pavlodar region and a member of the Union of Machine Builders of the Republic of Kazakhstan.