The article describes the main stages and trends in the development of sports ballroom dancing in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The method of data presentation was chosen chronological, since it allows us to trace the dynamics of the process of development and formation of the pedagogical activity of trainers of ballroom dance. Two main stages of the formation and development of domestic sports ballroom dancing are given. The contribution of such figures as Leonid Petrovich Vekshin, Valentina Vasilyevna Evseeva, Valery Valentinovich Antsyshkin to the development of sports and ballroom dancing in the Republic is described. The first schools for European and Latin American dances, dance-sport clubs in our country, as well as the first competitions in these dances were established. The names of foreign experts who helped the development of sports dancing in Kazakhstan are given. The difficulties with which ballroom dancing was encountered during the existence of the USSR are described. The information on the formation of the dance-sport club «Raduga».