Draft:First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan

No. Picture Name

(Birth–Death)

Term of office Political party
Took office Left office
1 Levon Mirzoyan
(1897–1939)
5 December 1936 15 May 1938 QKP/CPSU
2 Nikolay Skvortsov
(1899–1974)
15 May 1938 13 July 1945 QKP/CPSU
3 Gennady Borkov
(1905–1983)
13 July 1945 22 July 1946 QKP/CPSU
4 Zhumabay Shayakhmetov
(1902–1966)
22 July 1946 6 February 1954 QKP/CPSU
5 Panteleimon Ponomarenko
(1902–1984)
6 February 1954 7 May 1955 QKP/CPSU
6 Leonid Brezhnev
(1906–1982)
7 May 1955 6 March 1956 QKP/CPSU
7 Ivan Yakovlev
(1910–1999)
6 March 1956 26 December 1957 QKP/CPSU
8 Nikolay Belyaev
(1903–1966)
26 December 1957 19 January 1960 QKP/CPSU
9 Dinmukhamed Kunaev
(1912–1993)
19 January 1960 26 December 1962 QKP/CPSU
10 Ismail Yusupov
(1914–2005)
26 December 1962 7 December 1964 QKP/CPSU
11 Dinmukhamed Kunaev
(1912–1993)
7 December 1964 16 December 1986 QKP/CPSU
12 Gennady Kolbin
(1927–1998)
16 December 1986 22 June 1989 QKP/CPSU
13 Nursultan Nazarbayev
(born 1940)
22 June 1989 7 September 1991 QKP/CPSU