Aslan Maskhadov

Aslan Maskhadov
Масхадан Аслан
Maskhadov in 1999
3rd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
In office
12 February 1997 – 1 May 2000[a]
Vice PresidentVakha Arsanov
Abdul-Halim Sadulayev
Preceded byZelimkhan Yandarbiyev (acting)
Succeeded byAbdul-Halim Sadulayev (acting)
Prime Minister of Ichkeria
In office
16 October 1996 – 1 January 1997
Preceded byZelimkhan Yandarbiyev
Succeeded byRuslan Gelayev
In office
February 1997 – 1 January 1998
Preceded byRuslan Gelayev
Succeeded byShamil Basayev
In office
3 July 1998 – February 2000
Preceded byShamil Basayev
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Personal details
Born(1951-09-21)21 September 1951
Karaganda, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (now Kazakhstan)
Died8 March 2005(2005-03-08) (aged 53)
Tolstoy-Yurt, Chechnya, Russia
Political partyNational Independence Party
SpouseKusama Maskhadova
Children2
ProfessionOfficer (armed forces)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance
Branch/service Armed Forces of Ichkeria
RankMajor General
Battles/wars

Aslan (Khalid) Aliyevich Maskhadov (Russian: Асла́н (Хали́д) Али́евич Масха́дов; Chechen: Масхадан Али-воӀ Аслан (Халид), romanized: Masxadan Ali-voj Aslan (Xalid); 21 September 1951 – 8 March 2005) was a Soviet and Chechen politician and military commander who served as the third president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

He was credited by many with the Chechen victory in the First Chechen War, which allowed for the establishment of the de facto independent Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Maskhadov was elected President of Chechnya in January 1997. Following the start of the Second Chechen War in August 1999, he returned to leading the guerrilla resistance against the Russian army. De facto Ichkeria ceased to exist at the beginning of 2000. Until his death, Maskhadov was President in exile. He was killed in Tolstoy-Yurt, a village in northern Chechnya, in March 2005.[1]


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