Nursultan Nazarbayev

Nursultan Nazarbayev Нұрсұлтан Назарбаев
President of Kazakhstan
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 December 1991
Prime Minister	Sergey Tereshchenko Akezhan Kazhegeldin Nurlan Balgimbayev Kassym-Jomart Tokayev Imangali Tasmagambetov Daniyal Akhmetov Karim Massimov Serik Akhmetov Karim Massimov Bakhytzhan Sagintayev
Preceded by	position established
2nd Chariman 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	Erik Asanbayev
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakh SSR
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
Chariman of the Supreme Soviet	Bayken Ashimov Salamay Mukashev Zakash Kamaledinov Vera Sidorova Makhtay Sagdiyev
Preceded by	Bayken Ashimov
Succeeded by	Uzakbay Karamanov
Personal details
Born	6 July 1940 (1940-07-06) Chemolgan, Soviet Union (now Kazakhstan)
Political party	Communist Party (1962–1991) Independent (1991–1999) Nur Otan (1999–present)
Spouse(s)	Sara Alpysqyzy
Children	3
Religion	Sunni Islam
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Nursultan Äbishuly Nazarbayev (Kazakh: Нұрсұлтан Әбішұлы Назарбаев; born 6 July 1940) is the President of Kazakhstan. 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".