Nursultan Nazarbayev

Nursultan Nazarbayev
Нұрсұлтан Назарбаев Nursultan Nazarbaev
1st President of Kazakhstan
In office 24 April 1990 – 20 March 2019
Prime Minister	Sergey Tereshchenko Akezhan Kazhegeldin Nurlan Balgimbayev Kassym-Jomart Tokayev Imangali Tasmagambetov Daniyal Akhmetov Karim Massimov Serik Akhmetov Karim Massimov Bakhytzhan Sagintayev Askar Mamin
Vice President	Yerik Asanbayev (1991–96)
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Chairman of Nur Otan
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 July 2007
Preceded by	Bakhytzhan Zhumagulov
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
In office 22 February 1990 – 24 April 1990
Prime Minister	Uzakbay Karamanov
Preceded by	Kilibay Medeubekov
Succeeded by	Yerik Asanbayev
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
In office 22 June 1989 – 14 December 1991
Preceded by	Gennady Kolbin
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Prime Minister of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
In office 22 March 1984 – 27 July 1989
Chairman	Bayken Ashimov Salamay Mukashev Zakash Kamaledinov Vera Sidorova Makhtay Sagdiyev
Preceded by	Bayken Ashimov
Succeeded by	Uzakbay Karamanov
Personal details
Born	Nursultan Ábishuly Nazarbayev (1940-07-06) 6 July 1940 Chemolgan, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (now Ushkonyr, Kazakhstan)
Political party	Communist (1962–1991) Independent (1991–1999) Nur Otan (1999–present)
Spouse(s)	Sara Alpysqyzy ​ (m. 1962)​
Children	Dariga Dinara Aliya
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Nursultan Äbishuly Nazarbayev (Kazakh: Нұрсұлтан Әбішұлы Назарбаев; born 6 July 1940) is a Kazakh politician who served as the first President of Kazakhstan from 1990 to 2019.

Nazarbayev has been the president since December 1991, when Kazakhstan became independent of the Soviet Union. He has been the country's leader since 1989. This is when he was named First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR. In April 2011, Nazarbayev was re-elected to another five-year term.

In February 2014 he proposed renaming Kazakhstan to "Kazakh Eli". In 2006 he rewrote the words to "My Kazakhstan" which was then accepted as the country's national anthem. Shortly after his resignation as president the capital city was named after him in his honour.

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