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Dzhokhar Dudayev

1944 - 1996

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Dzhokhar Musayevich Dudayev (born Dudin Musa-Khant Dzhokhar; 15 February 1944 – 21 April 1996) was a Chechen politician, statesman 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. Dudayev was born in Chechnya in 1944, days before his family and the entire Chechen nation were deported to Central Asia by the Soviet regime in the Chechen genocide as part of an ethnic cleansing program which affected several million members of ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union between the 1930s and 1950s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dzhokhar Dudayev is the 1,347th most popular politician (down from 1,011th in 2019), the 123rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 115th in 2019) and the 44th most popular Russian Politician.

Dzhokhar Dudayev was a Chechen politician and president of the breakaway republic of Chechnya from 1991 to 1996. He is most famous for being the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which he led from 1991 to 1996.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dzhokhar Dudayev ranks 1,347 out of 19,576. Before him are Carol II of Romania, Alfonso V of Aragon, Theophilos, Valdemar II of Denmark, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and Klement Gottwald. After him are Robert I of France, Qin Er Shi, Lou Henry Hoover, Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan, Paul Barras, and Afonso V of Portugal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Dzhokhar Dudayev ranks 21. Before him are Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, Ernő Rubik, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Miloš Zeman, Geraldine Chaplin, and Jane Hawking. After him are Jimmy Page, Peter Mayhew, Joe Cocker, Gabor Maté, Carlos Alberto Torres, and Rafic Hariri. Among people deceased in 1996, Dzhokhar Dudayev ranks 14. Before him are Thomas Kuhn, Carl Sagan, Gladwyn Jebb, Mohammad Najibullah, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Marguerite Duras. After him are Frank Whittle, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Kelly, Joseph Brodsky, Babrak Karmal, and Joan Clarke.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dzhokhar Dudayev ranks 123 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Komarov (1927), Ivan VI of Russia (1740), Olga of Kiev (890), Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), and Feodor III of Russia (1661). After him are Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Sergey Kirov (1886), Vasili IV of Russia (1552), Mily Balakirev (1837), and Andrey Kolmogorov (1903).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Dzhokhar Dudayev ranks 44. Before him are Nikolai Bukharin (1888), Nikolai Yezhov (1895), Tokhtamysh (1342), Grigory Potemkin (1739), Ivan VI of Russia (1740), and Feodor III of Russia (1661). After him are Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797), Sergey Kirov (1886), Vasili IV of Russia (1552), Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893), Alexei Rykov (1881), and Ivan V of Russia (1666).

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