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Abrek Khasukha Magomadov
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 ... -
Abrek Zelimkhan Gushmazukayev
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 ... -
Imam Baisungur (Boiskhar) Beno
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 ... -
Imam Mansur Ushurma
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 ... -
Apti Bisultanov
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 ... -
Salman Raduyev
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 ... -
Shamil Salmanovich Basayev
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 ... -
Khamzat (Ruslan) Gelayev
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 ... -
Said Khassan Abumuslimov
Dr. Said Khassan Abumuslimov was born on 1 February 1953 in Kazakhstan. He is is a historian, writer and publicist. -
Usman Ferzauli
Usman Ferzauli was born in Arshti in 1958. He first trained as a construction engineer then studied Law in St Petersburg. During the First Russian-Chechen War, ... -
Ilyas Khamzatovich Akhmadov
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 ... -
Akhmad Khalidovich Zakayev
Akhmad Zakayev was born in Urus-Martan in 1959 and belongs to the influential Chinkho taip (clan). He graduated from the College of Acting in Voronezh in ... -
Dokka Khamadovich Umarov
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 ... -
Abdul Khalim Salamovich Sadullayev
Abdul Khalim Sadullayev was born into the Biltoy branch of the Ustradoi teip, an influential clan in the town of Argun on the plains of central ... -
Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov
On September 21, 1951, Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov was born in the Karagandy Province of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) of the Soviet Union, in the ... -
Zelimkhan Abdumuslimovich Yandarbiyev
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was born in 1952 in Kazakhstan. In 1956, his family returned to Chechnya to live in Stary Atagi. Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev studied at the Maxim ... -
Dzhoxar Musayevich Dudaev
Dzhoxar Dudaev was born in February 1944 during the forced deportation of his family along with the entire Chechen, Ingush, Balkar, Kalmyk, Crimean Tatar and other ...
