Nursultan Nazarbayev

Birth date and place

Born on 6 July 1940 in Chemolgan, Kaskelen district, Alma-Ata region.

Education

• 1960 – completed technical training in metallurgy in Dneprodzerzhinsk.
• 1967 – graduated from the higher technical school at the Karaganda Metallurgical Combine in ferrous metallurgy, qualifying as a metallurgical engineer.

Biography

Nursultan Nazarbayev was Kazakhstan’s first President. Elected President of the Kazakh SSR in April 1990, he led independent Kazakhstan until March 2019.

Before the presidency, he worked in metallurgy and in the republic’s Communist Party leadership, serving as First Secretary of its Central Committee in 1989–1991. His early career centred on Temirtau and the Karaganda Metallurgical Combine, where he held production jobs.

After leaving the presidency, he held the chairmanships of the Security Council, Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan and Nur Otan party, and remained a member of the Constitutional Council. He chaired the Assembly in 1995–2021 and the party in 2007–2022.

Career from source

• Worked as an ironworker, blast-furnace operator, dispatcher and senior gas operator at the Karaganda Metallurgical Combine.
• 1989–1991 – First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan.
• April 1990 – elected President of the Kazakh SSR.
• December 1991 – elected President by popular vote.
• 1991–March 2019 – President of independent Kazakhstan.
• 20 March 2019 – Kassym-Jomart Tokayev took the presidential oath.
• 1995–2021 – Chairman of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan.
• 1999, 2005, 2011 and 2015 – re-elected President.
• 2007–2022 – Chairman of Nur Otan.