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Nursultan Nazarbayev

1940 - Today

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Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev (born 6 July 1940) 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 Security Council from 1991 to 2022. Nazarbayev’s political career began in the Soviet era, where he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1962 while working as a steel factory worker. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nursultan Nazarbayev has received more than 4,108,930 page views. His biography is available in 95 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2019). Nursultan Nazarbayev is the 539th most popular politician (down from 266th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Kazakhstan and the 2nd most popular Kazakhstani Politician.

Nursultan Nazarbayev is the president of Kazakhstan. He is most famous for his role in the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 95

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nursultan Nazarbayev ranks 539 out of 19,576. Before him are Umberto II of Italy, Philip V of France, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Agrippina the Younger, Ertuğrul, and Theodosius II. After him are Abd al-Rahman III, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Pertinax, Franz von Papen, John II of France, and Charles the Simple.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Nursultan Nazarbayev ranks 12. Before him are Zodiac Killer, Chuck Norris, Annie Ernaux, Michael Gambon, Constantine II of Greece, and Ringo Starr. After him are J. M. G. Le Clézio, Qaboos bin Said al Said, Bartholomew I of Constantinople, Frank Zappa, Wangari Maathai, and Gao Xingjian.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev ranks 2 out of 193. Before him are Tomyris (-600). After him are Ahmad Yasawi (1103), Seljuk (902), Muhammad Shaybani (1451), Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (1953), Akhmad Kadyrov (1951), Lavr Kornilov (1870), Abai Qunanbaiuly (1845), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946), Aslan Maskhadov (1951), and Tughlugh Timur (1329).

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Among POLITICIANS In Kazakhstan

Among politicians born in Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev ranks 2. Before him are Tomyris (-600). After him are Seljuk (902), Muhammad Shaybani (1451), Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (1953), Akhmad Kadyrov (1951), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946), Aslan Maskhadov (1951), Tughlugh Timur (1329), Edigu (1352), Ablai Khan (1711), and Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev (1952).

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