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Nursultan Nazarbayev

President of Kazakhstan until March 2019, when he stepped down in an address to the nation.

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Dates
6 Jul 1940 –
Place
Kazakhstan
Background
  • Born in Shamalgan 12
  • Born on 6 July 1940 to Abish and Alzhan Nazarbayev3
  • A son, grandson and great-grandson of shepherds; all his ancestors lived at the foot of the Alatau4
  • Grew up in the multi-ethnic village of Chemolgan3
  • As a boy, helped his father grow potatoes and apples and mow hay in the mountains3
Family ties
Over time
  1. Life 6 Jul 1940 –
  2. head of Kazakhstan (President) 1990 – 19 Mar 2019

Connections 9

chair of

  • Security Council of Kazakhstan until 5 Jan 2022 Chairman Primary record 56

    He kept the chair after leaving the presidency in March 2019; President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev took it over on 5 January 2022.

  • Nur Otan until 28 Jan 2022 Chairman Primary record 56

    He announced in 2021 that he would hand over the party leadership; an extraordinary party congress elected President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev chairman on 28 January 2022.

head of

  • Kazakhstan 1990 – 19 Mar 2019 President Primary record 57

    Elected by the Supreme Soviet in 1990, while Kazakhstan was a Soviet republic; he announced his resignation in an address on 19 March 2019.

relative of

born in

  • Shamalgan Primary record 12

    Chemolgan is now Shamalgan. The English pages of his office's website place his birth at a summer pasture (zhailau) in the Trans-Ili Alatau.

Timeline 4 dates
  1. 6 Jul 1940 – Nursultan Nazarbayev
  2. 1990 – 19 Mar 2019 Nursultan Nazarbayev head of Kazakhstan
  3. until 5 Jan 2022 Nursultan Nazarbayev chair of Security Council of Kazakhstan
  4. until 28 Jan 2022 Nursultan Nazarbayev chair of Nur Otan
Proof 14 sources
  1. Нурсултан Назарбаев. Биография (Nursultan Nazarbayev. Biography), Delovoy Mir Astana; published on elbasy.kz, 2012. Primary record Archived copy
    Нурсултан Абишевич Назарбаев родился 6 июля 1940 года в селе Чемолган Каскеленского района Алма-Атинской области
    Вместе с супругой Сарой Алпысовной они вырастили трех дочерей – Даригу (1963 г.р.), Динару (1967 г.р.) и Алию (1980 г.р.).
    он создает семью, вступив в брак с уроженкой Карагандинской области Сарой Алпысовной Кунакаевой, работавшей диспетчером там же на Карметзаводе. В духе того времени скромную, но веселую комсомольско-молодежную свадьбу сыграли 25 августа
  2. Nursultan Abishevich Nazarbayev, Nursultan Nazarbayev Foundation. Self-published
    Nursultan Abishevich Nazarbayev was born on July 6, 1940, in the village of Chemolgan, Kaskelen District, Almaty Region, to parents Abish and Alzhan Nazarbayev.
  3. Nursultan Nazarbayev: Childhood, Press Service of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Elbasy (elbasy.kz). Primary record Archived copy
    On July 6, 1940, a long-awaited boy was born in the family of Abish and Alzhan Nazarbayev in zhailyau Alatau in Zailiyskiy Alatau.
    In the multi-ethnic Chemolgan everyone did like this. No one was divided by nationality. Nursultan Nazarbayev later wrote in one of his books that then no one among the boys remembered who you were - Kazakh, Ukrainian, Chechen, or German
    At home, in the garden and in the apple orchard, where he helped his father grow potatoes and apples. Nursultan fettled, mowed hay in the mountains together with his father.
  4. Nursultan Nazarbayev: Juvenility, Press Service of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Elbasy (elbasy.kz). Primary record Archived copy
    I am a son, a grandson and a great-grandson of shepherds, that is, not at all from nobles. All my ancestors lived here, at the foot of the Alatau
  5. Address of the Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev to the people of Kazakhstan, Official website of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 19 Mar 2019. Primary record Archived copy
    I remain the Chairman of the Security Council, which is vested with serious powers.
    I remain the Chairman of the Nur Otan party, a member of the Constitutional Council.
    I have made a difficult decision for myself - to resign from the powers of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
  6. Kazakh president becomes party chair after sidelining Nazarbayev, Al Jazeera, 28 Jan 2022. Scholarship & press
    Tokayev took over Nazarbayev’s most powerful position – chairmanship of the national security council – on January 5
    Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has been voted chairman of the governing party, replacing his mentor and former head of state Nursultan Nazarbayev
  7. Kazakhstan profile - Timeline, BBC, 9 Apr 2019. Scholarship & press
    1990 - The Supreme Soviet elects Nursultan Nazarbayev first Kazakh president and on 25 October declares state sovereignty.
  8. Family, Press Service of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Elbasy (elbasy.kz). Primary record Archived copy
    Nazarbayeva Aliya Nursultanovna (born in 1980), the youngest daughter.
    Nazarbayeva Dariga Nursultanovna (born in 1963), the eldest daughter.
    Kulibaeva Dinara Nursultanovna (born in 1967), middle daughter.
    Nursultan Nazarbayev's wife, Nazarbayeva Sara Alpysovna, since February 1992 - founder and president of the International Children's Charitable Fund "Bobek" ("Kid").
  9. Daughter of former Kazakh president removed from senate post, Al Jazeera, 2 May 2020. Scholarship & press
    Dariga Nazarbayeva, the eldest daughter of Kazakhstan’s former president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has been removed as speaker of the upper house of parliament.
  10. Son-in-law of ex-Kazakh president quits business lobby after deadly unrest, The Malaysian Insight (AFP wire), 17 Jan 2022. Scholarship & press
    Kulibayev is married to Dinara Kulibayeva, the middle daughter of Kazakhstan’s founding president Nursultan Nazarbayev.
  11. Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev Grandson Assumes Astana Power Post, Eurasianet, 21 Dec 2014. Scholarship & press Archived copy
    Aliyev is Nazarbayev’s eldest grandson
  12. London Court Dismisses Attempt To Seize Properties Linked To Nazarbaev Family, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 8 Apr 2020. Scholarship & press
    Nazarbaev's grandson, Nurali Aliev
  13. Former Kazakh president's grandson wins 'McMafia' case in London High Court, Eastern Eye, 9 Apr 2020. Scholarship & press
    Aliyev, the grandson of former Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev, said in statement.
  14. Nazarbayev Nursultan Abishevich, Ch. Ch. Valikhanov Institute of History and Ethnology (Science Committee, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Kazakhstan), 12 Apr 2023. Scholarship & press
    In 1962 N.A. Nazarbayev married Sarah Alpysovna Kunakaeva.
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