[1] Nurlan Äbdirov is the son of Majid Abdirov, he born in the village of Aqsu-Aiuly in the Shet District to a Sunni Muslim Kazakh family.

[2] In 1984, Äbdirov became an Adjunct at the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In July 1997, Äbdirov was appointed as a Secretary of the State Commission of Kazakhstan on Drug Control.

[2] On 8 September 2009, Äbdirov became a member of the Mäjilis where he served from March 2016 as a Chairman of the Committee on Legislation and Judicial and Legal Reform.

[5][6] On 1 September 2020, Äbdirov was chosen to be the Deputy Chair of the Senate, succeeding Bektas Beknazarov's role.