Nursultan Nazarbayev
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Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev is a Kazakh politician who served as the first president of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019. He also held the special title of Elbasy from 2010 to 2022 and chairman of the S
Nazarbayev in 2025
Nazarbayev (front row, second from left) at the signing of the Alma-Ata Protocol, 21 December 1991
Nazarbayev taking the oath of office
Nazarbayev (three rows from left) at the 1992 World Economic Forum chaired by Henry Kissinger in Davos
Astana
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Astana is the capital city of Kazakhstan. With a population of 1,622,245 within the city limits, it is the second-largest in the country after Almaty, the national capital until 1997. The city lies on
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…October 1994 and appointing ethnic-Kazakh Akezhan Kazhegeldin as the new PM. In 1994, Nazarbayev suggested relocating the capital city from Almaty to Astana, and the official changeover of the capital happened on 10 December 1997. In March 1995, the Constitutional Court ruled that 1994 legislative elections…
Astana Esil view
Bäiterek tower
Ai Alem museum
Khan Shatyr shopping mall