The Communist Party of Kazakhstan was the ruling and sole legal political party in the Kazakh SSR.
Image: Leonid Brezhnev Portrait (1)
Image: Nazarbayev Inauguration 1991 (cropped)
The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as Soviet Kazakhstan, the Kazakh SSR, or simply Kazakhstan, was one of the transcontinental constituent republics of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1936 to 1991. Located in northern Central Asia, it was created on 5 December 1936 from the Kazakh ASSR, an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR.
Stamp marking the Kazakh SSR's 40th anniversary