 While being first secretary of Semipalatinsk regional committee of Communistic Party of Kazakhstan, he supported democratic reforms in late 1980s in Kazakhstan, and anti-nuclear movement “Nevada-Semipalatinsk”, which later on emerged in powerful international movement for the closure of nuclear test site.Boztayev requested the Russian Military industrial complex to declassify materials regarding the effects of nuclear tests and to transfer this information to Kazakhstan.He also sought financial aid to the region of the Semipalatinsk polygon and improvement of the socio-economic conditions of the population.