Public Holidays in Kazakhstan

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Kazakhstan Public Holidays

Kazakhstan has a lot in common with the post Soviet countries and that includes some Public Holidays.Kazakhstan people celebrate New Year Day, Women's Day, May Day, now renamed to the Unity Day, Victory Day as they did during the Soviet times.

The official Kazakhstan holidays introduced since its independence are the Independence Day, Constitution Day, Capital City Day, Naurys, Kurban Bairam and Orthodox Christmas.

Official National Holiday are also called Red Day ("Krasniy Den" in russian) among the locals, meaning it's a day off, as they are marked in red on the calendars.

Kazakhstan Official Holidays 2011

Mark these days on your calendar as official national holidays inKazakhstan in 2011.

January 1
January 2
January 7

March 8
March 21
March 22
March 23

May 1
May 9

July 6

August 30

November 6

December 16
December 17

New Year
New Year
Orthodox Christmas - Religious

International Women's day
Nauryz
Nauryz
Nayryz

Unity Day
Victory Day

Capital City Day

Constitution Day

Kurban Bairam - Religious

Independence Day - National

Independence Day

NOTE. Due to coincidence with weekends some of the hoidays were moved on to the next working day.

If you have Five Day week:	January 1 to January 3 January 2 to January 4 May 1 to May 2 December 17 to December 19
If you have Six Day week:	January 2 to January 4 May 1 to May 2

In accordance with the decree adopted 22 February and in order to create favorable conditions the RK government decided to move Saturday March 5 to Monday 7 March 2011 and declare it an official public holiday (non-working). So you'll have three consecutive days off i.e March 6, 7, 8.

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