Nursultan Nazarbayev

**Elbasy**

Nursultan Nazarbayev
Нұрсұлтан Назарбаев
Elbasy; Nursultan Nazarbayev; Нұрсұлтан Назарбаев
	Nazarbayev in 2020
1st President of Kazakhstan
	In office; 24 April 1990 – 20 March 2019
Prime Minister	See list
Vice President	Yerik Asanbayev (1991–96)
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan
	In office; 16 December 1991 – 5 January 2022
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Chairman of Nur Otan
	In office; 4 July 2007 – 23 November 2021
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Chairman of the Assembly of People
	In office; 1 March 1995 – 28 April 2021
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Honorary Chairman of the Organization of Turkic States
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 25 April 2019
Preceded by	In office; 22 June 1989 – 7 September 1991
Soviet positions
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the QKP
	In office; 22 June 1989 – 7 September 1991
Preceded by	Gennady Kolbin
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR
	In office; 22 February 1990 – 24 April 1990
Premier	Uzakbay Karamanov
Preceded by	Kilibay Medeubekov
Succeeded by	Erik Asanbayev
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR
	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 Äbishuly Nazarbayev; 6 July 1940 (age 84); Chemolgan, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union; (now Ushkonyr, Kazakhstan)
Political party	Nur Otan (1999–present)
Other political; affiliations	Communist (1962–1991); Independent (1991–1999)
Spouse(s)	Sara Konakayeva (m. 1962)
Children	Dariga; Dinara; Aliya
Relatives	Bolat Nazarbayev
Signature
Website	elbasy.kz
Military service
Allegiance	USSR ; Kazakhstan
Branch/service	Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Years of service	1991–2019
Rank	; Supreme Commander
	Central institution membership

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.^[1]^[2] Some opposition groups call him an "unofficial leader" and "dictator".

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.^[3]

In February 2014, he proposed renaming Kazakhstan to "Kazakh Eli".^[4] 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.

Nursultan Nazarbayev Media

“CIS heads of state”. Russian President Boris Yeltsin (second right), Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk (left), Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev (second left) and Speaker of Belarusian Supreme Soviet (Parliament) Stanislav Shushkevich (right) after signing Protocol on Establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
Nazarbayev (three rows from left) at the 1992 World Economic Forum chaired by Henry Kissinger in Davos
1993 Kazakh postage stamp of Nazarbayev
William Cohen and Nazarbayev in November 1997
Vladimir Putin with Nursultan Nazarbayev in 2000
Nazarbayev with US President George W. Bush at the White House in September 2006
Nazarbayev holding a speech in 2012
Painting of Elbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev in 2014
Nazarbayev with Vladimir Putin and Shavkat Mirziyoyev in October 2018
The signing ceremony of the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union (in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 29 May 2014)