2024 in Kazakhstan

Events in the year 2024 in Kazakhstan.

Incumbents

Events

• 5 April – More than 100,000 are displaced following floods caused by the spring thaw in northern and western parts of the country.
• 14 May – The Supreme Court of Kazakhstan sentences former Minister of National Economy Kuandyk Bishimbayev to 24 years in prison for torturing and murdering his wife.
• 2 July – Exiled opposition activist Aydos Sadykov dies of injuries sustained after being shot in Kyiv, Ukraine on 18 June.
• 6 October – A majority of voters in a nationwide referendum allow the construction of Kazakhstan's first nuclear power plant in Ülken, near Lake Balkhash.
• 25 December – Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243, an Embraer ERJ-190AR carrying 67 people, crashes in Aktau, killing 38 people on board. Azerbaijan subsequently accuses Russia of unintentionally shooting down the aircraft.

Holidays

• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 7 January – Eastern Orthodoxy Christmas
• 8 March – International Women's Day
• 21–23 March – Nowruz
• 1 May – Kazakhstan People's Unity Day
• 7 May – Defender of the Fatherland Day
• 9 May – Great Patriotic War Against Fascism Victory Day
• 16 June – Qurban Ayt
• 6 July – Capital City Day
• 30 August – Constitution Day
• 25 October – Republic Day
• 16 December – Independence Day

References

External links

• Online calendar

• Kazakhstan Country Profile; CIA World Fact Book
• Kazakhstan; United Nations Statistics Division