| First Lady of Kazakhstan | |
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| Abbreviation | FLOK |
| Residence | Ak Orda Presidential Palace, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan |
| Term length | Concurrent with the president's term (unless a divorce or death takes place) |
| Precursor | Spouse of the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR |
| Inaugural holder | Sara Nazarbayeva (as first lady and wife of Nursultan Nazarbayev) |
| Formation | December 16, 1991 (32 years ago) (1991-12-16) |
| Website | akorda.kz (inKazakh) akorda.kz/ru (inRussian) akorda.kz/en (in English) |
The First Lady of the Republic of Kazakhstan , also known as First Lady of Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстанның бірінші ханымы, romanized: Qаzаqstаnnyñ bırınşı hаnymy, Russian: Первая леди Казахстана, romanized: Pervaya ledi Kazakhstana) is the unofficial de facto title usually attributed to the wife of the president of Kazakhstan, but because the incumbent president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is divorced, the position is vacant.[1] First and only person to hold the title was Sara Nazarbayeva, wife of Nursultan Nazarbayev.
The first lady position is currently vacant, since the divorce of the current president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Nadezhda Tokayeva in 2020.
There have been no first gentlemen of Kazakhstan to date.
There is no official role or office of the first lady of Kazakhstan as she is not an elected position, but usually tend to participate in humanitarian and charitable work.
Until 2019, there has been just one first lady since the country's independence in 1991, Sara Nazarbayeva, wife of President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
| No. | Portrait | Name | Nationality | Education | Marriage | Period | Length of tenure | President of Kazakhstan (Spouse) |
Marriage date | Portrait | Note | |
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Sara Nazarbayeva (née Konakayeva) Born: (1942-02-11) 11 February 1942 (age 82) |
Kazakh | Karaganda Industrial University | 1962 | 16 December 1991 | 20 March 2019 | 27 years, 3 months and 4 days | Nursultan Nazarbayev | m. 1962 | 
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| 2 | Nadezhda Tokayeva (née Davydovna) Born: (1958-09-27) 27 September 1958 (age 65) |
Jewish Russian | Russian State University for the Humanities | early 1980s | 20 March 2019 | 7 October 2020 | 1 year, 6 months and 17 days | Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (Incumbent) |
m. 1980; .div 2020 | 
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| – | Vacant Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Nadezhda Tokayeva are now divorced. |
2020 | Present | |||||||||
