2018 in Kazakhstan
# 2018 in Kazakhstan

Events in the year 2018 in Kazakhstan.

## Incumbents

* President: Nursultan Nazarbayev
* Prime Minister: Bakhytzhan Sagintayev

## Events

### January

* 18 January – A bus fire on the Samara–Shymkent road kills 52 passengers, with five people escaping.

### February

* 9 – 25 February – Kazakhstan participated in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, with 46 competitors in 9 sports.

### March

* 9 – 18 March – Kazakhstan participated in the 2018 Winter Paralympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.
* 15 March – A summit of Central Asian leaders takes place in Astana.

### October

* 11 October – The flight of the Soyuz MS-10 rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station is aborted during launch following the failure of the booster rocket. The two-man crew lands safely near Jezkazgan.

## Deaths

* 17 February – Rakhymshan Otarbayev [kk], writer and playwright (b. 1956).
* 19 July – Denis Ten, figure skater, Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1993).
