Khadzhiev, Salambek Naibovich

Born in the village of Shali, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. He spent his childhood in the village of Rovnoye in the Dzhambul region of Kazakhstan, where he was deported with his family. He returned to his homeland in 1957, when the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was restored. He graduated from the Grozny Oil Institute with a degree in oil and gas engineering, postgraduate study at Moscow State University. Lomonosov .

He worked at the Grozny Oil Research Institute (one of the leading in the oil industry of the USSR), where he went from a junior researcher to a director. In 1991, Khadzhiev became the Minister of Petrochemical Industry of the Soviet Union, the first Chechen in the USSR to hold a ministerial post. He was a member of scientific councils and the Interdepartmental Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences, a member of the USSR State Committee for Science and Technology on petrochemicals. He was a member of the editorial board of the journal "Chemistry and Technology of Fuel and Oils". The author of a number of scientific papers ^[3] .

Member of the Russian Pugwash Committee under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2011).

Chairman of the Chechen National Revival Government

In 1995, during the First Chechen War, he headed the Government of the Provisional Council of the Chechen Republic (“The Government of the National Revival of Chechnya”).

The appointment took place on January 16, on the day of the television appeal of Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to Russian citizens, in which he announced the intention of the federal leadership to form an effective government in Chechnya for the transitional period ^[4] . According to other sources, he headed the Government of the National Revival of Chechnya on November 23, 1994 ^{[5] [6] [7]} . In March, Hadzhiev met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin at his residence near Moscow as the head of a federation subject.

In July 1995, he announced his readiness to resign, which was considered by Kommersant newspaper journalists as the willingness of the federal authorities to sacrifice figures in anticipation of possible negotiations with separatists Dzhokhar Dudaev ^[8] . However, he resigned only on October 23, 1995 ^{[9] [10]} . After being removed from this post, at the end of 1995, he was the First Deputy Head of the Territorial Administration of the Federal Executive Bodies in the Chechen Republic ^[11]

In Russian Politics and Business

In 1995, he was involved in the organization of the Southern Oil Company.

In March 1996, participated in a meeting of the VIP club of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russia as chairman of the State Committee for Industrial Policy ^[12]

In 1996, Salambek Khadzhiev became a member of the board of directors of a large trading company Ecotech Oil, which supplies gas to the Moscow region and regions of Central Russia , and then headed it. He also owns 80 percent of the shares of this company ^[7] . In April 2002, he sold 50 gas stations owned by the company Slavneft .

The newspaper Kommersant clarifies ^[13] :

From the end of 1995 until December 2002, Hadzhiev did not communicate with reporters and did not give any interviews . Only in December 2002, on the eve of the “Congress of the Union of Peoples of Chechnya”, which was held in Moscow, he first appeared at a press conference where he made a number of political statements, which was regarded by the media as an attempt to return to “big politics”. Nevertheless, Khadzhiev refused to run for president of Chechnya ^[7] :

According to March 2009, he was still the president of Ecotech Oil and participated in the VI Moscow International Chemical Summit ^[14] .

In March 2017, he visited Grozny , where he praised the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov and his political course ^[15] .

He died after a serious long illness in a clinic in Israel on March 2, 2018. He was buried in Chechnya, in the city of Shali at the family cemetery ^[16] ..

A widower, was married to Svetlana Muslimovna Gairbekova. Three children: daughters Leila, Aset, son Bulat. Ten grandchildren. Sister Tamara Khadzhieva has been the head of the Shali district branch of the United Russia party since it opened in 2002, and in July 2004 she was killed by unidentified guns in her own house in Shali. In the same year, two close relatives of Salambek Khadzhiev, who were employees of the Shali District Department of Internal Affairs, were killed earlier ^[17] .

1. Order of the Red Banner of Labor ;
2. Order of the Badge of Honor ;
3. Order of Honor ;
4. Title "Honored Scientist of the Chechen Republic";
5. Title "Honored Petrochemist of the USSR";
6. Title “Honored Worker of the Fuel and Energy Complex of the Russian Federation”;
7. Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (July 17, 1996) - for active participation in organizing and conducting the election campaign of the President of the Russian Federation in 1996 ^[18] ;
8. Prize winner G.K. Zhukov;
9. Academician of RAS
10. State award of the Republic of Ingushetia with the Order of Merit;
11. Peter the Great Prize Laureate;
12. Medal “For works useful to society” (established by Catherine II in 1762);
13. Honorary Worker of the Fuel and Energy Complex;
14. Laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation;
15. Order "For Merit to the Chemical Industry of the First Degree";
16. Laureate of the prize named after A.N. Kosygin;
17. Award of the Chechen Republic “Honored Worker of Science”;
18. Medal “In Memory of Academician N. M. Emanuel” For achievements in the field of chemical and biochemical physics;
19. Medal of the Muslim Academy of Sciences;
20. Medal of the Atyrau Institute of Gas Oil for services to the development of the university;
21. Medal for allegiance to the homeland.

• Profile of Salambek Naibovich Khadzhiev on the official website of the RAS
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• Historical background on the website of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences