Famous Chechens
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Lechi Shamsudinovich Abaev
Chechen painter Lechi Shamsudinovich Abaev was born in November 1957 in Kirgizia due to the mass deportation that the entire Chechen-Ingush population faced in ... -
Seda Gubacheva
Chechen painter Seda Gubacheva was born in June of 1971 in Chechnya. She has lived and worked in Belgium since 2005. -
Ilman Yusupov
Ilman Movsurovich Yusupov, Chechen poet, writer and journalist, was born in 23 September 1951 in State Farm Kirov Maya area of Kazakhstan in a ... -
Mohammed Mousa Adel Shashani
Chechen Professor Mohammed Mousa Adel Shashani has a Jordanian citizenship and married. -
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Abuzar Aydamirov
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 ... -
Magomed Mamakayev
Magomed Mamakayev is a poet, prose writer, journalist and literary critic who made a valuable contribution to 20th century Chechen literature. -
Arbi Mamakayev
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 ... -
Khasmagomed Edilov
Khasmagomed Edilov was born in 1922 in the village of Valerik, famed by its association with the Russian poet – Mikhail Lermontov. -
Zamir Yushaev
The talented Chechen painter Zamir Yushaev was born in Khasavyurt in Dagestan on the 22nd of April 1965 in a family where the love ... -
Vaharsolt Balatkhanov
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
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 ... -
Imam Alimsultanov
Imam was born in Kyrgyzstan in 1957 to Chechen parents, who had been been relocated as a result of the forced deportations of most ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
