3472288 Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and President Boris Yeltsin after signing a declaration on the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States, 1991 (colour photo) by Russian Photographer (20th century); (add.info.: Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Russian SFSR and Nursultan Г„bishuly Nazarbayev, born 1940, who was leader of Kazakhstan since 1989, when he was named First Secretary of the Central Committe of the Communist Party of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. He was a member of the Politburo from 1990 and was elected the nation\'s first president following its independence from the Soviet Union in December 1991. Photo by Dmitryi Donskoy); Sputnik; Russian, it is possible that some works by this artist may be protected by third party rights in some territories.