Akhmadov, Yavus Zayndievich

He studied at an elementary school in the city of Dzhambul ( Kazakh SSR ). He completed secondary education in 1966 upon his return to his historical homeland in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic . In 1970 he graduated from the History Department of the Chechen-Ingush State Pedagogical Institute . He received his second specialty in 2006 at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation . He graduated from the graduate school of the Institute of History, Archeology and Language of the Dagestan Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences ( Makhachkala ), where in 1978 he defended his thesis on "Relations between the peoples of Chechen-Ingushetia and Russia in the 18th century." In 1990, he defended his doctoral dissertation in Rostov-on-Don, “The Peoples of the North Caucasus in the Foreign Policy of Russia, Iran and the Ottoman Empire (XVI - the first quarter of the XVIII century)." Doctor of historical sciences , professor , academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Chechen Republic .

He was a history teacher in a secondary school in the village of Goity of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR in 1970-1971. In 1971 he was invited to work in the Chechen-Ingush Republican Museum of Local Lore . In 1972-1975 he completed postgraduate studies at the Institute of History, Archeology and Language of the Dagestan Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Makhachkala). In 1976-1977 - Deputy Director of the secondary school in the city of Gudermes (CIASR). He continued his research activities in 1977 at the Chechen-Ingush Scientific Research Institute under the Council of Ministers of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The result of his 12-year work at the institute are dozens of articles, the first volume of the History of Chechnya, a collection of documents Russian-Chechen Relations in the 18th Century, and two school textbooks, The History of Chechen-Ingushetia.

From 1990 to 2003, he was a professor at Chechen State University . In 2001 he was elected an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Chechen Republic. Since 2004 - Member of the Dissertation Council of the Chechen State University. Now he works in the Academy of Sciences of the Chechen Republic and in the Comprehensive Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Grozny).

Akhmadov's scientific interests include: the history of Chechnya, the politics of the great powers in the Caucasus in the 16th – 19th centuries, the problems of ethnopolitical history and historical geography of the Caucasus, modern geopolitical and socio-political processes in the Caucasus and Russia.

In 1990, he made a report at an international conference in Oxford ( United Kingdom ), dedicated to the life and work of the famous spiritual leader of Chechnya of the 19th century Sheikh Kunt-Haji Kishiev .

Over the years of scientific activity, he has published over 160 scientific papers, including 20 monographs and study guides. A number of works published abroad: in the CIS countries , Turkey , Sweden and the USA . He took part in a number of All-Union, All-Russian and international conferences. Honored Scientist of the Chechen Republic.

In 1993, he was a member of the Council of National and Civil Accord of the Chechen Republic, a consultative and coordinating body that brought together representatives of the parliamentary opposition to President Dzhokhar Dudaev , leaders of several movements and parties, as well as part of the opposition-minded intelligentsia .

In 1994-1996 he participated in the political struggle against dudaevschina, served as Minister of Information and Press of the Chechen Republic in the Government of Public Confidence of Chechnya, from 2000 to 2002 he headed the Territorial Administration of the Press Ministry for the Chechen Republic.

In 2002-2003, he was the head of the apparatus of the Commission for a Political Settlement and Observance of Human Rights in the Chechen Republic of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

In 2004-2010, he worked as chief adviser, deputy head of the department for ensuring the activities of advisers to the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. He has the civil rank of State Advisor of the Russian Federation, Class I.

• Essays on the political history of the peoples of the North Caucasus in the 17th century. Terrible, 1988.
• Relations between the peoples of Chechen-Ingushetia with Russia in the 18th century Terrible, 1992.
• History of Chechen-Ingushetia. Textbook (9th grade). Grozny, 1992 (co-authored).
• Akhmadov Yavus. The export of the Iranian silk to Western Europe from the 16th to the beginning of the 17th century (the place of Russian and North Caucasian transit) // The Annual of the society for the study of Caucasia. Vol.6-7. Chicago: 1997.
• Ahmadov Yavus. Çeçen - İngusya Halkıyla Rusya Arasındaki İlişkiler / Translated by: Tarik Cemal Kutlu / Publisher: Sorun Yayınları. Istanbul, Eylül 2000.
• The history of Chechnya from ancient times to the end of the XVIII century. A manual for students of the history of their native land. M .: Peace be to your house, 2001.
• History of Chechnya in the 19th — 20th centuries. - M.: Pulse, 2005 (co-authored).
• A sketch of historical geography and ethno-political development of Chechnya in the 16th – 18th centuries. M., 2009.
• Islam in the North Caucasus: A People Divided // Liberty University (Lynchburg, Virginia), Faculty Publications and Presentations. 2009 (co-authored).
• The battle for Chechnya. "War of historiography" or information war. Grozny, 2015 (co-authored with D. B. Abdurakhmanov).
• History of Chechnya. T. 2. XVI — XVIII centuries. Grozny, 2016 (co-authored with Sh. B. Akhmadov and others).
• Akhmadov Ya. Z., Gumba G.D., Kurumov D.S., Khasmagomadov E.Kh. History of the nakhs of Asia Minor, the Caucasus and Chechnya from ancient times to the end of the 15th century / Akhmadov Y. Z. - M .: Litera , 2019 .-- 686 p. - 1,500 copies - ISBN 978-5-9906575-5-7 .

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