Issa Magometovich Kostoyev (; born August 8, 1942) is a Russian government attorney and bureaucrat. He was the representative in the

Federation Council The Federation Council, unofficially Senate, is the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, with the lower house being the State Duma. It was established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 1993. Each of the 89 federal s ...

from the executive body of state power of the Republic of

Ingushetia Ingushetia or Ingushetiya, officially the Republic of Ingushetia, is a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe. The republic is part of the North Caucasian Federal District, and shares land borders with the country o ...

(2002–2009), and a member of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security and Commission on Natural Monopolies. State Counselor of Justice 2 classes.

Early life

Born in

Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic When the Soviet Union existed, different governments had ruled the northern Caucasus regions of Chechnya and Ingushetia. Within the Mountain Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic, later annexed into the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republ ...

he and his parents were deported soon after his birth to

Gulag The Gulag was a system of Labor camp, forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word ''Gulag'' originally referred only to the division of the Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies, Soviet secret police that was in charge of runnin ...

Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as Soviet Kazakhstan, the Kazakh SSR, KSSR, or simply Kazakhstan, was one of the transcontinental country, transcontinental Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Un ...

. He graduated from

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (), also called KazNU or KazGU, is a national research university located in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Named after philosopher and scholar al-Farabi, it is one of the country's largest universities. KazNU is Kaza ...

with a specialty in jurisprudence.

Career

Kostoyev began working in the prosecutor's offices of North Ossetia, the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the prosecutor's office of the USSR and the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. He headed investigative groups that engaged in the search for Rostov maniac

Andrei Chikatilo Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (; ; 16 October 1936 – 14 February 1994) was a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer nicknamed "the Butcher of Rostov", "the Rostov Ripper", and "the Red Ripper" who sexual assault, sexually assaulted, murdered, and ...

and Smolensk maniac Vladimir Storozhenko. He supports the death penalty for serial killers and pedophiles.

Awards and honours

Order of the Red Banner of Labour The Order of the Red Banner of Labour () was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to the Soviet state and society in the fields of production, science, culture, literature, the arts, education, sports ...

(1982) *

Medal "Veteran of Labour" The Medal "Veteran of Labour" () was a civilian labour award of the Soviet Union established on January 18, 1974, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to honour workers for many years of hard work in the national economy ...

(1989) *

Honoured Lawyer of Russia Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation () is an Honorary title in Russia assigned to highly skilled lawyers for personal services: *in the formation of constitutional state and improving the national Russian laws in order to create equal legal c ...

(1997) * Order of Honour (2002) *

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" The Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" () is a state decoration of the Russian Federation. It was instituted on 2 March 1994 by Presidential Decree 442. Until the re-establishment of the Order of St. Andrew in 1998, it was the highest order of ...

, 4th class (2007) *

Order of Friendship The Order of Friendship (, ') is a state decoration of the Russian Federation established by Boris Yeltsin by presidential decree 442 of 2 March 1994 to reward Russian and foreign nationals whose work, deeds and efforts have been aimed at ...

(2022) * In his book "

A Most Wanted Man ''A Most Wanted Man'' is a thriller/ espionage novel by British writer John le Carré, published in September 2008 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and in October 2008 by Scribner in the United States. A young Chechen ex-prisone ...

John le Carré David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 193112 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré ( ), was a British author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophist ...

gave the name ''Issa'' to his Chechen character in it after Issa Kostoev.John le Carré, "The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life", Penguin Random House UK, Hardback ISBN 978-0-241-25755-5, 2016, p.160

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«Я чувствовал — он убийца»: интервью со следователем, поймавшим Чикатило
1942 births Living people People from Nazranovsky District Al-Farabi Kazakh National University alumni Members of the Federation Council of Russia (1994–1996) Members of the Federation Council of Russia (after 2000) Plenipotentiary Representatives of the President of the Russian Federation in the regions Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia) Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Honoured Lawyers of the Russian Federation Ingush people Russian jurists Russian police officers Soviet jurists Soviet police officers {{Russia-law-bio-stub