Akhmad Kadyrov
| Akhmad Kadyrov Ахмат Кадыров |
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| 1st President of the Chechen Republic | |
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In office 5 October 2003 – 9 May 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Position created |
| Succeeded by | Alu Alkhanov |
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23 August 1951 Karaganda, Kazakh SSR, USSR |
| Died |
9 May 2004 (aged 52) Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russia |
| Nationality | Chechen |
| Political party | Non-Partisan |
| Spouse(s) | Ayman Nisievna Kadyrova |
| Children | 4 |
| Profession | Cleric |
| Religion | Islam (Sufism) |
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Akhmad Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov (Russian: Ахмат Абдулхамидович Кадыров; Chechen: Къадири lабдулхьамидан кlант Ахьмад-Хьажи; 23 August 1951 – 9 May 2004), also spelled Akhmat, was the Chief Mufti of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the 1990s during and after the First Chechen War. At the outbreak of the Second Chechen War he switched sides, offering his service to the Russian government, and later became the President of the Chechen Republic from 5 October 2003, acting as head of administration since July 2000.
On 9 May 2004, he was assassinated by Chechen Islamists in Grozny, using a bomb blast during a World War II memorial victory parade. His son, Ramzan Kadyrov, who led his father's militia, became one of his successors in March 2007 as the President of the Chechen Republic.
Akhmad (or Akhmat) Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov was born in Karaganda in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic on 23 August 1951 to a Chechen family that had been expelled from Chechnya during the Stalinist repressions. In April 1957, his family returned to Shalinsky District of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR. In 1980, he started studying Islam at Mir-i Arab Madrasah in Bukhara, and followed by studying at Islamic University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from 1982 to 1986. In the early 1990s, he returned to Chechnya, and founded the Islam Institute in the village of Kurchaloy.
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