Ermukhamet Ertysbayev (Kazakh: Ermuhamet Qabıdenuly Ertisbaev, Ермұхамет Қабиденұлы Ертісбаев) served as the Minister of Culture, Information, and Sport in the Government of Kazakhstan until President Nursultan Nazarbayev split the Ministry of Culture, Information and Sport into a Culture and Information Ministry and a Tourism and Sport Ministry through a presidential decree on 27 March 2006. Nazarbayev appointed Ertysbayev the Minister of Culture and Information and Temirkhan Dosmukhanbetov the Minister of Tourism. Ertysbayev has been called Nazarbayev's "wily political adviser."