Commander-in-Chief of the Air Defense Forces (Kazakhstan)

The Commander-in-Chief of the Air Defense Forces is the administrative head in the Kazakh Air Defense Forces, and is under the chief of the General Staff and the Ministry of Defence. The current commander-in-chief of the Air Defense Forces is Kairat Sadykov.

List of commanders NameTerm startTerm endNotesKopen Akhmadiev17 September 200317 September 2007Alexander Sorokin17 September 200727 June 2013Nurlan Ormanbetov27 June 20132 October 2017Nurlan Karbenov2 October 201716 March 2020Nurlan Ormanbetov16 March 202029 December 2022Däuren Qosanov29 December 20228 June 2025Kairat Sadykov18 June 2025Incumbent

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