Articles in the Famous Chechens Category
Ilman Movsurovich Yusupov, Chechen poet, writer and journalist, was born in 23 September 1951 in State Farm Kirov Maya area of Kazakhstan in a family of the deported Chechen people from Hattuni village of Vedeno …
Chechen Professor Mohammed Mousa Adel Shashani has a Jordanian citizenship and married.
Abuzar Aydamirov, a people’s writer of the Chechen-Ingush Republic, is the author of distinguished works, of which the most notable ones are the historical trilogy “Long Nights”, “A Lightning in the Mountains” and “The Storm”. …
Magomed Mamakayev is a poet, prose writer, journalist and literary critic who made a valuable contribution to 20th century Chechen literature.
A prominent Chechen poet Arbi Mamakayev was born into a peasant’s family in the village Nizhni Naur, Nadterechny District of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1918.
Khasmagomed Edilov was born in 1922 in the village of Valerik, famed by its association with the Russian poet – Mikhail Lermontov.
The talented Chechen painter Zamir Yushaev was born in Khasavyurt in Dagestan on the 22nd of April 1965 in a family where the love for painting was inherited to the children from father, an amateur …
The famous Chechen painter Vaharsolt Balatkhanov was born in Pokroskom village of Dagestan’s Khasavyurt Region. He is a member of Akkiy tribal union (tukhum).
Uvays Mezhidovich Akhtayev was a prominent Chechen basketball player, master of sport in the former Soviet Union. Being a 238-centimeter-high man, he was to be famed at basketball courts.
Imam was born in Kyrgyzstan in 1957 to Chechen parents, who had been been relocated as a result of the forced deportations of most Chechens and Ingush to Central Asia on February 23, 1944. He …
Chechnya’s last abrek, Khasukha Magomadov, was born in 1905 in the little mountain village of Gatin-Kali in Shatoy Region. When his father died, the 18-year-old Khasukha had to take charge of his family. He was …
After the February Revolution in Russia in 1905 the Tsarist police attempted to nip revolutionary activities in the bud with cruel repression, and the effects were felt in Chechnya, too. On 10 October 1905 the …
Imam Baisungur (Boiskhar) Beno (1794-1861)
Baisungur and his companion Zoltamurad were from Benoy, the bulwark of anti-Russian resistance. From youth onwards they participated in every battle and urged Chechens to fight.
Ushurma was born in the aul (village) of Aldi in 1760 as the fourth son of the farmer Shaabaza. He married when he was 22 and fathered three children. But he left his aul in …
Apti Bisultanov was born in 1959 in Goichu near Urus-Martan. His father returned from the Second World War wounded and died early. Apti Bisultanov studied philology and worked as a senior lecturer, an editor and …
Salman Raduyev was born in 1967 into the Gordaloy teip (clan) in Novogroznensky near Gudermes in eastern Chechnya. During the early 1980s Raduyev was active in the Komsomol (Young Communist League) of which he eventually …
Shamil Basayev was born in the village of Dyshne-Vedeno, near Vedeno, in south-eastern Chechnya to Chechen parents from the Benoy teip. According to Gennady Troshev he has some distant Russian ancestry. He was named after …
Ruslan (Khamzat) Gelayev (1964–February 28, 2004) was a prominent commander in the Chechen freedom fighting against imperialist Russia. The Russians nicknamed him the Black Angel which he also used as his radio communications call sign.
Dr. Said Khassan Abumuslimov was born on 1 February 1953 in Kazakhstan. He is is a historian, writer and publicist.
Ilyas Akhmadov was born on December 19, 1960 in Kazakhstan, where most of the Chechen nation – including his family – was exiled by Stalin’s government in 1944. The Akhmadovs returned to Shatoy, Chechnya in …
Akhyad Idigov was born into a family of teachers in 1948. He studied at the Oil Institute in Grozny and worked as a construction engineer for the management of a Soviet oil company. Since 1991 …
Dokka Umarov was born on April 13, 1964 in the village of Kharsenoy (Shatoy District) and is a member of the Mulkhoy taip. Umarov graduated from the construction facility of the Oil Institute in the …
