title: 2018 in Kazakhstan
text: # 2018 in Kazakhstan
  
  Events in the year 2018 in Kazakhstan.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Nursultan Nazarbayev
  * Prime Minister: Bakhytzhan Sagintayev
  
  ## Events
  
  ### January
  
  * 18 January – A bus fire on the Samara–Shymkent road kills 52 passengers, with five people escaping.
  
  ### February
  
  * 9 – 25 February – Kazakhstan participated in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, with 46 competitors in 9 sports.
  
  ### March
  
  * 9 – 18 March – Kazakhstan participated in the 2018 Winter Paralympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.
  * 15 March – A summit of Central Asian leaders takes place in Astana.
  
  ### October
  
  * 11 October – The flight of the Soyuz MS-10 rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station is aborted during launch following the failure of the booster rocket. The two-man crew lands safely near Jezkazgan.
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 17 February – Rakhymshan Otarbayev [kk], writer and playwright (b. 1956).
  * 19 July – Denis Ten, figure skater, Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1993).
  