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{{Infobox political party
|name          = Communist Party of Kazakhstan <br> Қазақстан Коммунистік партиясы
|colorcode     = red
|leader        = 
|president     = 
|chairman      = 
|spokesperson  = 
|foundation = 1936
|ideology      = [[Communism]]<br>[[Marxism–Leninism]]
|headquarters  = 
|international = [[Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]<br>[[International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties]] (IMCWP)
|website       = {{URL|http://www.komparty.kz/|komparty.kz}}
|country       = Kazakhstan
|membership = 
|membership_year =
|leader1_title = First leader
|leader1_name = [[Levon Mirzoyan]]
|leader2_title = Last leader
|leader2_name = [[Gaziz Aldamzharov]]
|dissolution = 
|banned = 4 September 2015 
}}
The '''Communist Party of Kazakhstan (CPK)''' ({{lang-kk|Қазақстан Коммунистік партиясы}}; {{lang-ru|Коммунистическая партия Казахстана}}) is a banned [[political party]] in [[Kazakhstan]].<ref>[https://www.nur.kz/878575-kommunisticheskuyu-partiyu-kazakhstana.html Коммунистическую партию Казахстана ликвидировали по решению суда]</ref>

==Origin==
The Communist Party of Kazakhstan was founded 1936, when [[Kazakhstan]] was granted a Union Republic status within the [[Soviet Union]]. The Communist Party of Kazakhstan had been a branch of [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPSU]] until the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]].

==Post-Soviet restructuring==
[[File:Abdildin S. A..jpg|right|200px|thumb|[[Serikbolsyn Abdildin]], party leader from 1991 to 2010]]
The 18th Congress of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan took a decision to rename the Communist Party as the Socialist Party and split from CPSU. [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]], the party chairman, resigned when he became the first [[President of Kazakhstan]] in 1991. Dissatisfied members of the old Communist Party recreated the Communist Party of Kazakhstan in October 1991 at the 19th Congress of the party. CPK was officially registered on August 27, 1998. Communist Party of Kazakhstan has a well-established party structure with offices in all of the oblasts. CPK is estimated to have around 70 thousand members.<ref>Kazakhstan Votes 2005, http://www.rferl.org/specials/kazakh_votes/parties.aspx</ref> CPK largely appeals to above-middle age segment of the population especially in Urban areas who have a strong nostalgia for Soviet times. The leader of CPK has been by Serikbolsyn Abdildin, a respected, old generation politician in Kazakhstan.

In the mid-1990s CPK participated in opposition coalition movements "[[Azamat (coalition)|Azamat]]" and "[[Pokolenie (coalition)|Pokolenie]]" ("Generation"). In 1996, CPK initiated unregistered "National-Patriotic Movement-Republic". In February 1998, it joined the opposition bloc "[[People’s Front of Kazakhstan]]".<ref>Campaign Updates from [[Yevgeny Zhovtis]], http://www.iicas.org/libr_en/kz/libr_21_05_06.htm</ref>

The party split at the start of 2004, when a group led Vladislav Kosarev started accusing party First Secretary Serikbolsyn Abdildin of accepting money from questionable sources. The splinter party, the [[Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan]], has failed to meet 50,000 membership requirement to be officially registered.

At the last [[legislative]] [[elections in Kazakhstan|elections]], 19 September and 3 October 2004, an alliance of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan and the [[Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan]] won 3.4% of the popular vote and no seats. At the 4 December 2005 presidential elections, Communist Party of Kazakhstan, Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan and the [[Naghyz Ak Zhol Party]] formed a coalition movement, [[For a Just Kazakhstan]] and supported [[Zharmakhan Tuyakbay]] as presidential candidate.

==First Secretaries==
'''Of the Communist Party of the [[Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic]]'''
#[[Levon Mirzoyan]] (December 5, 1936 - May 3, 1938)
#[[Nikolay Skvortsov (politician)|Nikolay Skvortsov]] (May 3, 1938 - September 14, 1945)
#[[Zhumabay Shayakhmetov]] (September 14, 1945 - March 6, 1954)
#[[Panteleimon Ponomarenko]] (March 6, 1954 - May 8, 1955)
#[[Leonid Brezhnev]] (May 8, 1955 - March 6, 1956)
#[[Ivan Dmitriyevich Yakovlev|Ivan Yakovlev]] (March 6, 1956 - December 26, 1957)
#[[Nikolay Belyayev]] (December 26, 1957 - January 19, 1960)
#[[Dinmukhamed Kunayev]] (January 19, 1960 - December 26, 1962)
#[[Ismail Yusupov]] (December 26, 1962 - December 7, 1964)
#[[Dinmukhamed Kunayev]] (December 7, 1964 - December 16, 1986)
#[[Gennady Kolbin]] (December 16, 1986 - June 22, 1989)
#[[Nursultan Nazarbayev]] (June 22, 1989 - August 28, 1991)
'''Of the Communist Party of the [[Republic of Kazakhstan]]'''
#[[Serikbolsyn Abdildin]] (October 1991 - April 17, 2010)
#[[Gaziz Aldamzharov]] (April 17, 2010 – September 4, 2015)

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.komparty.kz Official website of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan]
{{Kazakhstani political parties}}
{{Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}
[[Category:Communist parties in the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Parties of one-party systems]]
[[Category:Branches of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Political parties in Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Communist parties in Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic]]
[[Category:Banned communist parties]]
[[Category:Banned political parties in Kazakhstan]]