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Sara Nazarbayeva

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Sara Nazarbayeva
Сара Назарбаева
Nazarbayeva in 2000
1st First Lady of Kazakhstan
In role
16 December 1991 – 20 March 2019
PresidentNursultan Nazarbayev
Preceded byPosition created
Succeeded byNadezhda Tokayeva
13th Spouse of the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR
In role
22 February 1990 – 24 April 1990
ChairmanNursultan Nazarbayev
Preceded byVacant
Succeeded byVacant
Personal details
Born
Sara Alpysovna Konakayeva

(1942-02-11) 11 February 1942 (age 82)
Kyzyl-Zhar, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
(now Kazakhstan)
Spouse
(m. 1962)
ChildrenDariga , Dinara , Aliya , Tauman , Bayken

Sara Alpysqyzy Nazarbayeva (Kazakh: Сара Алпысқызы Назарбаева, Sara Аlpysqyzy Nazarbaeva, [ˈsɑɾɑ ɑlpɯsqɯˈzɯ nɑzɑɾˈbɑjɪvɑ], Russian: Сара Алпысқызы Назарбаева, née Konakay (Qonaqay, Қонақай); born 11 February 1942) served as the First Lady of Kazakhstan and is the wife of former President Nursultan Nazarbayev. She married Nursultan in 1962 after her graduation. They have three daughters — Dariga, Dinara and Aliya — and six grandchildren and a great granddaughter.[1][2]

Nazarbayeva is the President of Böbek [kk; ru], an international children's foundation, which she founded in 1992. For her work with children she was awarded the Ihsan Dogramaci Family Health Foundation Prize by the World Health Organization in 1997[3] and the International Unity Prize.[4]

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