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Bank and Public Holidays for Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2012, from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use.

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04 May 2012 (Electronic government of the Republic of Kazakhstan-Astana) The president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has instructed the government to draft and submit a bill ("On amendments to the Law of Kazakhstan") that would make May 7 a non-working public holiday to be called the "Defender of the Motherland Day". • 16 Apr 2012 (Electronic government of the Republic of Kazakhstan-Astana) The government of Kazakhstan has declared Monday, April 30, 2012, as another non-working bridge public holiday to link the annual Unity Day public holiday with the previous weekend. • 01 Mar 2012 (Electronic government of the Republic of Kazakhstan-Astana) The government of Kazakhstan has declared Friday, March 9, 2012, as a non-working public holiday to link the annual International Women's Day public holiday with the subsequent weekend. • 17 Feb 2012 (Electronic government of the Republic of Kazakhstan-Astana) The government of Kazakhstan has released the official list of non-working public holidays in the Republic of Kazakhstan for the calendar year 2012. • 15 Dec 2011 (Kazinform-Astana) The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has announced that he was in favour of the recently-voted new December 1st annual public holiday honoring Kazakhstan's first president, as "many countries recognize such a holiday". • 11 Dec 2011 (Electronic government of the Republic of Kazakhstan-Astana) The Kazakh Senate has adopted an amendment to the Kazakh law On holidays in the Republic of Kazakhstan to establish a new annual state non-working public holiday, the Day of the First President of Kazakhstan on December 1st. • 03 Dec 2011 (Electronic government of the Republic of Kazakhstan-Astana) The Government of Kazakhstan has announced that it had declared the 4 days from Friday, December 16, to Monday, December 19, 2011, inclusively, as official non-working public holidays on account of the upcoming National Day holidays. • 25 Aug 2011 (Kazakhstan Today-Gazeta) In a statement issued by Kazakhstan's Prime Minister, Karim Massimov, it was announced that the Government of Kazakhstan has declared Monday, August 29, 2011, as an official non-working public holiday. • 30 Jun 2011 (Electronic government of the Republic of Kazakhstan-Astana) The deputies of Kazakhstan's Maslikhat have unanimously approved the declaration of Monday and Tuesday, July 4 and 5, 2011, as one-off non-working public holidays throughout Kazakhstan. • 29 Apr 2011 (Electronic government of the Republic of Kazakhstan-Astana) The Government of Kazakhstan has announced the extent of the 2011 non-working public holidays associated with the annual May 1st and May 9 non-working public holidays. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Kazakhstan public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: The official public holidays of Kazakhstan are regulated by the Law on Public Holidays in the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the Labour Law 1999 which was amended in 2001, 2005, and 2009. • Mid-Week Public Holidays: Section 56-4 of Kazakhstan's Labour Code entitles the government to move any public holiday that falls in the middle of the week to another weekday, such as a Monday or Friday, to minimize the disruption caused by holidays to business life. • Classification: Public holidays are grouped into 3 categories: National Holidays, State Public Holidays, and Religious Public Holidays. When any of the holidays of the first 2 categories fall on a weekend, a day in lieu is given on the next working day. • Kazakhstan International Codes KZ and KAZ (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .kz (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Kazakhstan information and news: National Bank of Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Kazakhstan maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Kazakhstan), and Wikipedia (includes Kazakhstan commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Kazakhstan, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Kazakhstan, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to Kazakhstan. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Kazakhstan that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

Muslim Holidays : Muslim bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Kazakhstan were evaluated using the Umm al-Qura Calendar of Saudi Arabia which is used in Saudi Arabia and in most of the Persian Gulf States. Holidays may occur a day later in countries outside the Gulf region. The sunrises, sunsets, moon phases, moonrises and moonsets used in these calculations are based on the location of Mecca (latitude 21.42°N, longitude, 39.82°E, GMT+3 hours, no summer time rules). For more details on Muslim holidays, see Muslim Calendar Holidays. For Salat (prayer times) calculations, see our Freeware page.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2012 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Kazakhstan, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Kazakhstan, before planning any trip to Kazakhstan. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.