Nursultan Nazarbayev facts for kids

Nursultan Nazarbayev
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	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 ; 6 July 1940 (age 81); 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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Nazarbayev with US President George W. Bush at the White House in September 2006.
Nazarbayev with President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in 2009
Nazarbayev with Lee Myung-bak in Seoul, 2010.
Nazarbayev with President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, President of Finland Tarja Halonen and Prime Minister of Spain José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in 2011
Presidents Nazarbayev & Obama held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague.
Kazakhstan 2050 Strategy logo
Nazarbayev with Xi Jinping in 2013
Meeting with the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in 2008 in Astana
Postage stamp with Nazarbayev
Nazarbayev with leaders of China, Russia and India during the Moscow Victory Day Parade, 9 May 2015
Nursultan Nazarbayev street, Amman.
Nazarbayev (second from left) at the signing of the Alma-Ata Protocol, December 1991