Ramzan Akhmadov

Ramzan Akhmadov
Akhmadov and Shamil Basayev
Born	1970 (1970) Taldıqorğan, KSSR, USSR
Died	February 2001 (aged 30–31) Starye Atagi, Chechnya
Allegiance	Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Service/branch	Chechen National Guard
Years of service	1992-2001
Rank	Brigadier General
Commands held	Urus-Martan Front Achkhoy-Martan Front Grozny sector
Battles/wars	War in Abkhazia First Chechen War Battle of Grozny (1994–95) War of Dagestan Second Chechen War
Awards	Qoman Siy
Relations	Brother, Zelimkhan Akhmadov

Ramzan Akhmadov (Chechen: Ахьмадан Ӏаданани КӀант Рамзан) (1970–2001) was a Chechen general, who commanded the Southwestern Fronts of Chechnya.^[1]

Biography[]

Ramzan Akhmadov was born in 1970 in Kazakhstan, where the Akhmadov family lived after the deportation in 1944. In 1990, the Ahmadovs returned to the city of Urus-Martan, located in the south-west of Chechnya.^[2]

In the first Chechen war he led a large detachment of militants who operated in the city of Grozny. In the summer of 1999 under the command of Shamil Basayev and Khattab, Ramzan Akhmadov leads a unit of militants that invades Botlikh and Novolakskoye regions of Dagestan. During the Second War, Ramzan Akhmadov was the closest associate of Khattab, led the Urus-Martan front, the Achkhoy-Martan front and the west of Grozny.^[3]

Akhmadov was killed in February 2001.

Family[]

Ramzan had 5 brothers: Apti died in 2001, Rizvan died in 2002, Abu died in 1999, Huta died in 1999 in Dagestan, Zelimkhan died in 2002. His family was of the Gendargenoy Teip.^[2]

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