Magomed Shotaevich Shataev (; 1896 −1965) was a
Chechen public figure of the Soviet period.
In the
Civil War
A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country).
The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government polic ...
of 1917—1923, Shataev took part in a hundred day battles for Grozny and the capture of the Vedeno fortress. Later, in administrative and political work in the
ChAO,
CHI AO and CHI ASSR, during the
Great Purge
The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Yezhov'), was Soviet General Secreta ...
in 1937—1941 he was accused of organizing an armed uprising, was sentenced to death. The sentence was eventually commuted to imprisonment, Shataev was sent to
Stalinist camps and tortured. In 1944 he was
deported
Deportation is the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country. The term ''expulsion'' is often used as a synonym for deportation, though expulsion is more often used in the context of international law, while deportation ...
from the Caucasus. In the period after WWII he actively worked on the rehabilitation of the
Vainakhs
The Nakh peoples, also known as ''Vainakh peoples'' (Chechen/Ingush: , apparently derived from Chechen , Ingush "our people"; also Chechen-Ingush), are a group of Caucasian peoples identified by their use of the Nakh languages and other cult ...
and their return from deportation to their historical homeland, and also sought the
restoration of the ChI ASSR. In 1956, Shataev was a member of the delegation from the Vainakhs to Moscow to the members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU, which resulted in the creation by the government of the Commission for the Restoration of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. He became the first of the Chechens to achieve a mandate allowing them to visit their homeland after deportation. In his youth, he was friends with
Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov
Abdurakhman Genazovich (Ganazovich) Avtorkhanov ( ce, Абдурахма́н Гена́зович (Гана́зович) Авторха́нов, 23 October 1908 – 24 April 1997) was a Chechen historian who worked primarily in the fields of ...
and was his colleague. After the collapse of the USSR in the early 1990s, A. Avtorkhanov often mentioned Magomed in his radio interviews as his friend.
Memory
In honor of Shataev, one of the streets in the city of
Kurchaloy
Kurchaloy ( ce, Курчалой-ГӀала, ''Kurçaloy-Ġala''; russian: Курчалой) is a town in, and the administrative center of Kurchaloyevsky District, Chechnya. Population:
Administrative and municipal status
Municipally, Kurcha ...
was named.
M. Shataeva street on the map of the village of Kurchaloy Chechnya with house numbers
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References
Further reading
* Батукаева З. А. Тайны семейного архива братьев Налаевых // «Маршо». — 2010. — № 13—14 (5 февраля).
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* {{cite web , author=Арби Падаров , date= , title=Слово о славном сыне чеченского народа Магомеде Шатаеве , url=http://gums-41.ru/news/media/2021/1/19/slovo-o-slavnom-syine-chechenskogo-naroda-magomede-shataeve/ , accessdate= , website=Гудермесская районная газета «Гумс» , lang=ru , ref=Падаров
Chechen-Ingush ASSR list of persons subject to trial by the military collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR of September 12, 1938 Stalin, Molotov, Zhdanov.
РГАСПИ, ф.17, оп.171, дело 418, лист 49.
1896 births
1965 deaths
Chechen politicians
People from Chechnya
People from Terek Oblast