“The years of your stay at the head of state became the period of the formation of the modern Kazakhstani state.

Under your leadership, the republic has achieved impressive success in the economic, social, scientific and technical and other areas, has earned a high prestige in the world arena, "- said in Putin's congratulations.

He noted that it is difficult to overestimate the personal contribution of Nursultan Nazarbayev to the building and development of Russian-Kazakh relations.

Earlier it was reported that the National Bank of Kazakhstan is issuing a 20,000 tenge banknote for the 30th anniversary of the republic's independence with the image of the country's first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev.