Personal Life
He is married to the First Lady of Kazakhstan, Sara Alpysqyzy Nazarbayeva, with whom he has three daughters: Dariga, Dinara and Aliya. Dariga was married to Rakhat Aliyev, son of a former minister of healthcare, who served as the First Deputy Foreign Minister and twice as the Kazakh Ambassador to Austria. Dinara is married to Timur Kulibayev, son of a former Minister of Construction, who serves as the First Deputy Chairman of the national holding company Samruk-Kazyna, which manages several state-owned companies and, formerly, as the first Vice President of the state-owned petroleum company KazMunaiGas. Aliya is a businesswoman, who was formerly married to Aidar Akayev, the son of former Kyrgyz President, Askar Akayev; she married, secondly, to Daniyar Khassenov, a Kazakhstani businessman.
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