Sara Nazarbayeva

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Sara Nazarbayeva
Сара Назарбаева
Nazarbayeva in 2000
1st First Lady of Kazakhstan
In role 16 December 1991 – 20 March 2019
President	Nursultan Nazarbayev
Preceded by	Position created
Succeeded by	Nadezhda Tokayeva
13th Spouse of the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR
In role 22 February 1990 – 24 April 1990
Chairman	Nursultan Nazarbayev
Preceded by	Vacant
Succeeded by	Vacant
Personal details
Born	Sara Alpysovna Konakayeva (1942-02-11) 11 February 1942 (age 82) Kyzyl-Zhar, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (now Kazakhstan)
Spouse	Nursultan Nazarbayev ​ ​ (m. 1962)​
Children	Dariga, Dinara, Aliya, Tauman, Bayken

Sara Alpysqyzy Nazarbayeva (Kazakh: Сара Алпысқызы Назарбаева, Sara Аlpysqyzy Nazarbaeva, [ˈsɑrɑ ɑɫpəsqəˈzə nɑzɑrˈbɑjɪvə]; Russian: Сара Алпыскызы Назарбаева, née Konakay (Qonaqay, Қонақай); born 11 February 1942) served as the First Lady of Kazakhstan and is the wife of former President Nursultan Nazarbayev. She married Nursultan in 1962 after her graduation. They have three daughters — Dariga, Dinara and Aliya — and eleven grandchildren and a great granddaughter.^[1][2]

Nazarbayeva is the President of Böbek [kk; ru], an international children's foundation, which she founded in 1992. For her work with children she was awarded the Ihsan Dogramaci Family Health Foundation Prize by the World Health Organization in 1997^[3] and the International Unity Prize.^[4]