(,
1951 –
May 9 ,
2004 ) was the president of the
Chechen Republic (elected on
October 5 ,
2003 ). He was
Assassinated in
Grozny stadium by a bomb blast under a VIP stage during a
World War II memorial victory parade.
Born in
Karaganda , in the
Kazakh SSR , his family returned to the Tsentoroy village,
Shali district in the
Chechen-Ingush ASSR in April
1957 . Following the breakup of the
Soviet Union , he became a leader of breakaway Chechnya (most notably declaring the
Jihad against Russia in 1995 and ordering "every
Muslim " to kill "100 Russians"), but later defected from the separatist cause and became a staunchly pro-Moscow president of the Republic.
- 1967 - finished Bachi-yurt school.
- 1968 - took a course in combine harvester driving in the Kalinovskaya stanica, Naurski district.
- 1969 - 1971 - worked in "Novogroznenski" Sovkhoz , Gudermeskij rajon.
- 1971 - 1980 - worked in building companies in Nechernozem'e and Siberia .
- 1980 - entered Bukhara Miri-Arab Madrasah .
- 1982 - 1986 - continued studying in the Tashkent High Islam University.
- 1986 - 1988 - worked as deputy Imam of the Gudermes cathedral masjid.
- 1989 - 1990 - founded a first in North Caucasia Islamic Institute in the Kurchaloy village and was its rector.
- 1990 - entered Sheriat faculty of Amman Islamic University.
- 1991 - returned to the motherland, breaking studying.
- 1993 - designated as deputy Mufti , in September 1994 as acting mufti of the Chechen Republic.
- 1995 - elected Mufti of the Chechen Republic, declared Jihad against Russia.
- June, 2000 - designated as head of the Chechen Republic government.
- 2001 - awarded Order of Friendship.
- October 5 2003 - elected as president of Chechen Republic.
- May 9 2004 - assassinated.
- May 10 2004 - bestowed the title Hero Of The Russian Federation .
On May 9, 2004, an explosion ripped through VIP seating at a "Dinamo" stadium during a mid-morning
Victory Day parade in the capital
Grozny , killing Kadyrov, two of his bodyguards, the Chairman of the Chechen
State Council , a
Reuters journalist, and others, as many as a dozen. 56 others were wounded, including General Valery Baranov, the commander of
Russian forces in Chechnya. Early reports (''New York Times'') asserted that the bomb had been built into the concrete of a supporting column during recent repairs. In the immediate aftermath, Putin announced that
Sergei Abramov , the Kremlin-appointed prime minister of Chechnya, would take on the position of acting president until elections could be scheduled.
There were at least a dozen assassination attempts before this one.
(Most known are on
January 29 ,
2001 -
September 7 ,
2001 -
May 20 ,
2003 .)
He had 4 children and 13 grandchildren. Two of his elder sons died soon after his death.
In
2005 , his surviving son
Ramzan Kadyrov has been appointed the
Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic.
