Nurtai Abykayevich Abykayev (Kazakh: ?????? ????????? ???????, Nurtay Äbiqayuli Äbiqayev; Russian: ?????? ????????? ???????, Nurtay Abykayevich Abykayev) is the current Chairman of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan.
Previously he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation and before this chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan from 2004 to 2007.
He is a long-time friend and assistant to President Nursultan Nazarbayev, and is viewed as the leader of one of the political "clans" that make up Kazakhstan's elite.