The labor activity of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Abishevich Nazarbayev began in the city of Temirtau in 1960, where he came to the construction of the Kazakhstan Magnitka, the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant. Here he went through a good school from the worker of the department of Domenstroy of the Kazmetallurgstroy trust, the furnaceman of the furnace shop of the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant, to the second secretary of the Karaganda Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan. From the first days his labor activity was brightly reflected on the pages of the press of that period. The authors revealed more than 150 articles in which the name of N.A. Nazarbayev was mentioned. The texts of some of them are given in the article.