KAZAKHSTANGeneral Information

Central Asia

Capital: Astana

ECONOMY

Currency: Kazakhstani Tenge

• Old

new

Commemorative banknotes

• Grain, cotton, wool, livestock, oil export

GOVERNMENT

President Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev

• Republic - a representative democracy in which the people's elected deputies (representatives), not the people themselves, vote on legislation. 

• Authoritarian - a form of government in which state authority is imposed onto many aspects of citizens' lives. 

• Presidential - a system of government where the executive branch exists separately from a legislature (to which it is generally not accountable). 

Kazakhstan is a member of the following:

• United Nation• Organization for Security and Co-operation in

Europe• North Atlantic Cooperation Council• Commonwealth of Independent States• Shanghai Cooperation Organization• NATO’s Partnership for Peace Program

HISTORICAL EVENTS

FORMER USSR MEMBER

A. • Kazakhstan is the raw material supplier to the

economy of the USSR• Kazakhstan supplied the front and rear areas

of the USSR with military and strategic raw materials and food during the Second World War of 1941-1945

• Kazakhstan became one of the leading industrial centers of the former USSR and held fourth place among the other republics

• Under the Soviet regime, Kazakhstan began intensive work on the development of the raw-materials base and in the extraction of all kinds of mineral wealth. Powerful mining enterprises were built across Kazakhstan.

INDEPENDENCE

B. • The attempted coup further weakened the

Soviet government, which could no longer control the government for self-rule in the nation’s republics. Within weeks, Kazakhstan and all of the other Soviet republics declared independence from the Soviet Union.

• December 16, 1991

PRESENT DAY

C. • Kazakhstan became the chair person in

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.  

CULTURE

Kazakh yurts

NATIONAL COSTUME

chapans

malakai tobetai

saukele

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Musical Instruments

Kobyz

Dombra

NATIONAL GAMES

Kazaksha kures (Kazakh wrestling)

baiga (horse racing)

KOKPAR

TRADITIONAL FOODS AND DRINKS

Beshmark

kuyrdak

kumys shubat

HISTORICAL SITES

Turkestan

Otrar