Dalkhan Abdulazizovich Khozhaev (18 April 1961 – 26 July 2000) was a Chechen historian, field commander, brigadier general and author with numerous works on the centuries-old confrontation between Chechnya and

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, as well as the First Chechen War. He commanded a special brigade and was loyal to

Ruslan Gelayev Ruslan (Hamzat) Gelayev (russian: Руслан (Хамзат) Гелаев; was a prominent commander in the Chechen separatist movement against Russia, in which he played a significant, yet controversial, military and political role in the 199 ...

Early life

Dalkhan Khozhaev was born on 18 April 1961 in Grozny into the Chechen

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of Benoy. Dalkhan's father Abdul-Aziz Khozhaev was a commercial worker and his mother Zura Bibulatova was a Chechen and Russian language teacher. Both of his parents came from

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. In 1983 he graduated from the faculty of History of the Chechen-Ingush State University. Between 1985 - 1991, he was a methodologist of the station of young tourists, as well as a researcher at the Chechen-Ingush Republican Regional Museum.

Works

He was the author of works on the history of the national liberation movement of Chechnya in the 19th century. As well as the Head of the Archives Department, which was later destroyed. Since 1994 he was a member of the Cabinet of Ministers and as well as the State Defense Council of the

Chechen Republic of Ichkeria The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (; ce, Нохчийн Республик Ичкери, Nóxçiyn Respublik Içkeri; russian: Чеченская Республика Ичкерия; abbreviated as "ChRI" or "CRI") was a ''de facto'' state tha ...

Death

On the night of 26 July 2000 in the village of Valerik, Khozhaev was shot dead by a sniper while staying the night with some relatives in a private household. The Russian military was blamed for the killing, but denied their involvement in his death. The federal forces believed that

Arbi Barayev Arbi Alautdinovich Barayev ( ce, Арби Алаутдинович Бараев; 27 May 1974 – 22 June 2001) was a Chechen warlord and terrorist, who in 1996 became the founder and first leader of the Special Purpose Islamic Regiment (SP ...

, a longtime enemy of

, was involved in the killing. Possibly due to Dalkhan's loyalty to

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Sources

Chechen independence activists 1961 births 2000 deaths North Caucasian independence activists