Day of the First President was established in Kazakhstan to celebrate the day, when Nursultan Nazarbaev became the first President of independent Kazakhstan in 1991.
Day of the First President appeared in the list of public holidays of Kazakhstan only in 2013.
Nursultan Nazarbaev officially became the first President of Kazakhstan on December 16, 1991.
On December 1 the first presidential elections were held and Nazarbaev won 91.5%.
