EXHIBIT 31.1

                  CERTIFICATION OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER
            Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002


         I, Boris Cherdabayev, certify that:

         (1) I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 10-KSB of BMB Munai,
Inc. (the "Company");

         (2) Based on my knowledge, this Annual Report does not contain any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary
to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such
statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this
Annual Report;

         (3) Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other
financial information included in this Annual Report, fairly present in all
material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows
of the Company as of, and for, the periods presented in this Annual Report;

         (4) The Company's other certifying officers and I are responsible for
establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in
Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the Company and have:

         (a)      Designed such disclosure controls and procedures or caused
                  such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under
                  our supervision to ensure that material information relating
                  to the Company, including its consolidated subsidiary, is made
                  known to us by others within those entities, particularly
                  during the period in which this quarterly report is being
                  prepared;

         (b)      Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or
                  caused such internal control over financial reporting to be
                  designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable
                  assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and
                  the preparation of financial statements for external purposes
                  in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

         (c)      Evaluated the effectiveness of the Company's disclosure
                  controls and procedures and presented in this report our
                  conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls
                  and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this
                  Annual Report based on such evaluation; and

         (d)      Disclosed in this Annual Report any change in the Company's
                  internal controls over financial reporting that occurred
                  during the Company's most recent fiscal quarter that has
                  materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially
                  affect, the Company's internal controls over financial
                  reporting; and

         (5) The Company's other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based
on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to
the Company's auditors and the audit committee of the Company's board of
directors (or persons fulfilling the equivalent function):

         (a)      All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the
                  design or operation of internal controls over financial
                  reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the
                  Company's ability to record, process, summarize and report
                  financial information; and

         (b)      Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management
                  or other employees who have a significant role in the
                  Company's internal controls over financial reporting.



Date: July 13, 2005                         By: /s/ Boris Cherdabayev
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                                                Boris Cherdabayev,
                                                Principal Executive Officer