Dzhokhar Dudayev

✶February 15, 1944

†April 21, 1996

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About their life

Dzhokhar Musayevich Dudayev was a Chechen politician, revolutionary and military leader of the 1990s Chechen independence movement from Russia. He served as the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria from 1991 until his assassination in 1996. Dudayev had previously served as a senior officer in the Soviet Air Forces.

Soviet general, Chechen leader (1944-1996)

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