sentences:  Nephew of Nursultan Nazarbaev
  
  Graduated from Kazakh Agricultural Institute majoring in Mechanization of Agriculture and the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee; PhD in Economics.He started his professional experience in 1968 as a sports methodologist at the ‘Druzhba’ State Farm; upon graduation from the institute, he worked as a mechanical engineer at the ‘Leninsky’ State Farm and later as Chairman of Trade Union Working Committee at the Kazakh Research Institute of Potato and Vegetable Farming.In 1979, he became an instructor of Organizational Department at Kaskelen District Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan and then he was elected Secretary of ‘Leninsky’ State Farm Communist Party Committee.