3472291 U.S.S.R. President Mikhail Gorbachev and Kazakhstan\'s Nursultan Nazarbayev on the presidium of the CPSU 28th congress, 1990 (colour photo) by Russian Photographer, (20th century); (add.info.: Mikhail Gorbachev, born 1931, general secretary of the U.S.S.R. Communist Party Central Committee 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 Sergei Guneev); Sputnik; Russian, out of copyright.