Birthday of President of Kazakhstan

Nursultan NazarbayevBorn in 1940 in the village of Chemolgan near Almaty (modern Almaty) in the Kazakh SSR. In 1960 he graduated from the technical school in Dneprodzerzhinsk, worked as a metallurgist in Temirtau.

In 1984 he was appointed Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR. In September 1989, Nazarbayev was elected Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic. In March 1990 he became President of Kazakhstan.

A reformist, Nazarbayev supported a plan to conclude a new union treaty in 1991. On December 1, 1991, Nazarbayev was elected President of Kazakhstan, receiving almost 99% of the vote. On December 16, 1991, on the first anniversary of the Almaat unrest, Kazakhstan was proclaimed an independent republic.

In January 1999, Nazarbayev was re-elected for a second seven-year presidential term, with about 80 percent of voters voting for him.

In 2006 he won the election with 91%. He was again elected president of the country.