3472285 First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Kazakh Communist Party Nursultan Nazarbayev, 1990 (b/w photo) by Russian Photographer, (20th century); (add.info.: Nursultan Г„bishuly Nazarbayev, born 1940, was leader of Kazakhstan from 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 Vladimir Vyatkin); Sputnik; Russian, out of copyright.