List of leaders of Kazakhstan

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Sidebar". The president of Kazakhstan is the head of state elected by popular vote to serve a five-year-term.[1] The president appoints the prime minister of Kazakhstan (head of government) and first deputy prime minister.[2][3]

Leaders of the Kazakh Khanate (Khans) (1465–1874)

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Leaders of Kazakhstan (1917–1990)

Alash Autonomy (1917–1920)

No. Chairman
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Term of office Political party Ref
Portrait Name Took office Left office Time in office
1 File:Alikhan Bukeikhanov.jpg Alikhan Bukeikhanov
Әлихан Бөкейхан
(1866–1937)
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13 December 1917 5 March 1920 Template:Age in years and days Alash

Kirghiz Krai (1919–1920)

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Term of office Political party Ref
Portrait Name Took office Left office Time in office
Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 1 File:Stanisław Pestkowski.jpg Stanisław Pestkowski
Станислав Пестковский
(1882–1937)
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10 July 1919 26 August 2020 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
(Bolsheviks)
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| Sakypkerey Argynshiev (Acting)
Сақыпкерей Арғыншиев
(1887–1938)
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August 1920 26 August 2020 <1 month style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
(Bolsheviks)

Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic (1920–1925)

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Term of office Political party Ref
Portrait Name Took office Left office Time in office
Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 1 File:Stanisław Pestkowski.jpg Stanisław Pestkowski
Станислав Пестковский
(1882–1937)
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26 August 1920 15 September 1920 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
(Bolsheviks)
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| File:Coat of arms of the Kirghiz ASSR (Reconstruction) (1921-1925).svg Sakypkerey Argynshiev (Acting)
Сақыпкерей Арғыншиев
(1887–1938)
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26 August 1920 September 1920 <1 month style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
(Bolsheviks)
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 2 File:Radus-zenkovich.jpg Viktor Radus-Zenkovich
Виктор Радус-Зенькович
(1877–1967)
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15 September 1920 13 October 1920 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
(Bolsheviks)
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 3 File:Coat of arms of the Kirghiz ASSR (Reconstruction) (1921-1925).svg Seitkali Mendeshev
Виктор Радус-Зенькович
(1887–1938)
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13 October 1920 19 April 1925 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
(Bolsheviks)
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 3 File:Coat of arms of the Kirghiz ASSR (Reconstruction) (1921-1925).svg Zhalau Mynbayev
Жалау Мыңбаев
(1892–1929)
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19 April 1925 15 July 1925 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
(Bolsheviks)

Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1925–1936)

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Term of office Political party Ref
Portrait Name Took office Left office Time in office
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 1 File:Coat of arms of Kazakhstan (1927-1937).svg Zhalau Mynbayev
Жалау Мыңбаев
(1892–1929)
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15 July 1925 3 April 1927 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
(Bolsheviks)
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 2 File:Coat of arms of Kazakhstan (1927-1937).svg Eltai Yernazarov
Елтай Ерназаров
(1887–1945)
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3 April 1927 9 January 1935 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
(Bolsheviks)
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 3 File:Coat of arms of Kazakhstan (1927-1937).svg Uzakbai Kulymbetov
Ұзақбай Құлымбетов
(1891–1938)
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9 January 1935 5 December 1936 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
(Bolsheviks)

Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (1936–1991)

First Secretary of the Communist Party

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Term of office Political party Ref
Portrait Name Took office Left office Time in office
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 1 File:Levon Mirzoyan.jpg Levon Mirzoyan
Левон Мирзоян
(1897–1939)
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23 April 1937 23 May 1938 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
(Bolsheviks)
Oversaw early famine relief and collectivization; arrested in 1938 during Great Purge and executed in February 1939.
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 2 File:Nikolai Aleksandrovich Skvortsov.jpg Nikolay Skvortsov
Николай Скворцов
(1899–1974)
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23 May 1938 23 July 1945 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
(Bolsheviks)
Guided the republic through wartime mobilization relocating factories during World War II and post‑war reconstruction.
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 3 File:Emblem of the Kazakh SSR (1937-1978).svg Gennady Borkov
Геннадий Борков
(1905–1983)
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23 July 1945 22 June 1946 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
(Bolsheviks)
Served briefly in the immediate post‑war period during demobilization; little else is documented about his short tenure.
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 4 File:Emblem of the Kazakh SSR (1937-1978).svg Zhumabay Shayakhmetov
Жұмабай Шаяхметов
(1902–1966)
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22 June 1946 6 February 1954 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
(Bolsheviks)
First ethnic Kazakh in the post; removed in February 1954 under Khrushchev's reorganizations amid allegations of corruption.
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 5 File:Anefo 910-7476 Ponomanrenko, (cropped).jpg Panteleimon Ponomarenko
Пантелеймон Пономаренко
(1902–1984)
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6 February 1954 7 May 1955 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
Transferred from Byelorussian SSR as a transitional figure after Stalin's death; served just over a year before being reassigned.
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 6 File:Леонид Брежнев (1952).jpg Leonid Brezhnev
Леонид Брежнев
(1906–1982)
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8 May 1955 6 March 1956 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
Promoted from Second Secretary to lead Virgin Lands campaign and Baikonur development; recalled to Moscow in March 1956 after disappointing harvests.
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 7 File:Emblem of the Kazakh SSR (1937-1978).svg Ivan Yakovlev
Иван Яковлев
(1910–1999)
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6 March 1956 26 December 1957 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
Elevated from Second to First Secretary during the Khrushchev Thaw; oversaw de‑Stalinization measures and defense‑industry conversion.
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 8 File:Emblem of the Kazakh SSR (1937-1978).svg Nikolai Belyaev
Николай Беляев
(1903–1966)
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26 December 1957 19 January 1960 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
Noted for advancing agricultural and economic policies; dismissed in January 1960 due to a downturn in agricultural output and the harsh suppression of the 1959 Temirtau riots.
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 9 File:Dinmuhkamed Konayev.png Dinmukhamed Kunaev
Дінмұхамед Қонаев
(1912–1993)
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19 January 1960 26 December 1962 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 10 File:Emblem of the Kazakh SSR (1937-1978).svg Ismail Yusupov
Ысмайыл Юсупов
(1914–2005)
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26 December 1962 7 December 1964 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
Succeeded Kunaev amid Khrushchev's regional reshuffling; initiated the transfer of several South Kazakhstan regions to the Uzbek SSR and was later dismissed at Brezhnev's suggestion.
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 11 File:Dinmuhkamed Konayev.png Dinmukhamed Kunaev
Дінмұхамед Қонаев
(1912–1993)
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7 December 1964 16 December 1986 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
After a brief hiatus (replaced in 1962), he returned to lead for over 22 years overseeing massive industrialization and former Virgin Lands efforts and was removed in December 1986 by Gorbachev, causing the Jeltoqsan protests.
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 12 File:Emblem of Kazakh SSR.svg Gennady Kolbin
Геннадий Колбин
(1927–1998)
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16 December 1986 22 June 1989 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
Appointed by Gorbachev as an outsider with no prior work in Kazakhstan; his imposition sparked the Jeltoqsan protests.
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color; color:white"| 13 File:Nazarbayev Inauguration 1991 (cropped).jpg Nursultan Nazarbayev
Нұрсұлтан Назарбаев
(1940–)
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22 June 1989 28 August 1991 Template:Age in years and days style="background:Template:Party color;"|Communist
Last First Secretary; oversaw the exclusion of Article 6 (ending one‑party monopoly) on 24 October 1990 and the transition to the Presidency in April 1990 before office was abolished in September 1991.

Head of state

No. Portrait Name
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Term of office Political party
Took office Left office Time in office
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee
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(1891–1938)
5 December 1936 22 June 1937 Template:Ayd QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |— Ismail Salvafeka
(?–?)
Acting
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June 1937 July 1937 ~1 month QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |2 Alibey Dzhangildin
(1884–1953)
July 1937 28 October 1937 ~3 months QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |3 File:Umurzakov N.jpg Nurbapa Umirzakov
(1907–1947)
28 October 1937 15 July 1938 Template:Ayd QKP
Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |4 Template:Ill
(1907–1984)
15 July 1938 17 July 1938 Template:Ayd QKP
Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |5 Template:Ill
(1898–1959)
17 July 1938 January 1947 ~8.5 years QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |— Template:Ill
(1902–1994)
Acting
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January 1947 20 March 1947 ~2 months QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |6 File:Даниял Керимбаевич Керимбаев.jpg Template:Ill
(1909–1982)
20 March 1947 23 January 1954 Template:Ayd QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |7 Nurtas Undasynov
(1904–1989)
23 January 1954 19 April 1955 Template:Ayd QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |8 File:KZ-2015-50tenge-Tashenev-b-hd.jpg Zhumabek Tashenev
(1915–1986)
19 April 1955 20 January 1960 Template:Ayd QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |9 Fazyl Karibzhanov
(1912–1960)
20 January 1960 25 August 1960 Template:Ayd QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |— Kapitalina Krykova
(1914–2002)
Acting
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25 August 1960 3 January 1961 Template:Ayd QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |10 Isagali Sharipov
(1906–1976)
3 January 1961 5 April 1965 Template:Ayd QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |11 Sabir Niyazbekov
(1912–1989)
5 April 1965 20 December 1978 Template:Ayd QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |12 Isatay Abdukarimov
(1924–2001)
20 December 1978 14 December 1979 Template:Ayd QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |13 File:Имашев С.Н.jpg Sattar Imashev
(1926–1984)
14 December 1979 22 February 1984 Template:Ayd QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |14 Andrey Plotnikov
(1912–1991)
22 February 1984 22 March 1984 Template:Ayd QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |15 Bayken Ashimov
(1917–2010)
22 March 1984 27 September 1985 Template:Ayd QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |16 Salamat Mukashev
(1927–2004)
27 September 1985 9 February 1988 Template:Ayd QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |17 Zakash Kamalidenov
(1939–2017)
9 February 1988 December 1988 ~10 months QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |18 Vera Sidorova
(1934–2025)
December 1988 10 March 1989 ~3 months QKP
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |19 Template:Ill
(1929–2012)
10 March 1989 22 February 1990 Template:Ayd QKP
Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;" |20 File:Nazarbayev Inauguration 1991 (cropped).jpg Nursultan Nazarbayev
(born 1940)
22 February 1990 24 April 1990 Template:Ayd QKP

Presidents of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1990–present)

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Symbols

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No. Portrait Name
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Elected Term of office Political party
Took office Left office Time in office
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1990
1991
1999
2005
2011
2015
24 April 1990 20 March 2019 Template:Ayd QKP
(1990–1991)
Independent
(1991–1999)
Otan/Nur Otan
(1999–2019)
style="background:Template:Party color; border-style: none; color:white; height:33px" |20
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style="background:Template:Party color; border-style: none; color:white; height:33px" | File:President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Astana 01 (cropped)(b).jpg Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
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20 March 2019 12 June 2019 84 days Nur Otan
(2019–2022)
Amanat
(March–April 2022)
Independent
(since 2022)
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2022
12 June 2019 Incumbent Template:Ayd
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Note

Until 16 December 1991 the head of state was called President of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.

Timeline

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 from: 13/12/1917 till: 05/03/1920 color:Alash       text:"Alikhan Bukeikhanov"
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 from: 30/04/1919 till: 01/08/1920 color:Soviet      text:"Stanisław Pestkowski"
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 from: 01/08/1920 till: 26/08/1920 color:Soviet      text:"Sakhiygirey Radus-Zenkovich"
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 from: 26/08/1920 till: 01/10/1920 color:Soviet      text:"Viktor Radus Zenkovich"
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 from: 01/10/1920 till: 12/10/1920 color:Soviet      text:"Abdrakhman Aytiyev"
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 from: 15/06/1925 till: 01/01/1927 color:Soviet      text:"Jalau Mynbaev"
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 from: 01/01/1927 till: 11/10/1933 color:Soviet      text:"Eltay Ernazarov"
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 from: 11/10/1933 till: 05/12/1936 color:Soviet      text:"Uzakbay Kulumbetov"
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 from: 15/05/1938 till: 13/07/1945 color:Communist   text:"Nikolay Skvortsov"
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 from: 13/07/1945 till: 22/07/1946 color:Communist   text:"Gennady Borkov"
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 from: 22/07/1946 till: 06/02/1954 color:Communist   text:"Zhumabay Shayakhmetov"
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 from: 06/02/1954 till: 07/05/1955 color:Communist   text:"Panteleimon Ponomarenko"
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 from: 07/05/1955 till: 06/03/1956 color:Communist   text:"Leonid Brezhnev"
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 from: 06/03/1956 till: 26/12/1957 color:Communist   text:"Ivan Yakovlev"
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 from: 26/12/1957 till: 19/01/1960 color:Communist   text:"Nikolay Beyaev"
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 from: 19/01/1960 till: 26/12/1962 color:Communist
 from: 07/12/1964 till: 16/12/1986 color:Communist   text:"Dinmukhamed Kunaev"
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 from: 26/12/1962 till: 07/12/1964 color:Communist   text:"Ismail Yusupov"
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 from: 16/12/1986 till: 22/06/1989 color:Communist   text:"Gennady Kolbin"
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 from: 22/06/1989 till: 07/09/1991 color:Communist
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See also

References

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