Gantamirov, Bislan Saydalievich

Born in the village of Gekhi, Urus-Martan District, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. He graduated from the Rostov Road College and the Stavropol branch of the All-Union Correspondence Institute of Law.

In 1981 - 1983 he served in the Soviet Army . In 1984 - 1987 he worked in the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In November 1991 he was appointed mayor of Grozny . October 25, 1992 - elected Chairman of the Grozny City Assembly ^[2] .

In April 1993, he joined the opposition to the Dudaev regime, as he did not share with him the revenues from the oil business ^{[2] [3]} .

On the night of June 4-5, 1993, the armed formations of Dzhokhar Dudaev stormed the building of the Grozny City Assembly (one of the main opposition centers that Gantamirov headed) ^{[4] [5]} .

In 1994, together with the head of the administration of the Nadterechny district of Chechnya, Umar Avturkhanov, he created the Provisional Council of the Chechen Republic (PCCR). In September 1994, he became the head of the combined armed forces of the HRCM.

In the First Chechen War, he fought on the side of the federal forces.

Since January 1995 - Deputy Head of the Territorial Administration of Federal Executive Bodies in the Chechen Republic. In the spring of 1995 he became mayor of Grozny, on November 1, 1995 - deputy prime minister of the Chechen government.

The next period of his life, the newspaper Kommersant described as follows:

The career of an official was not for him - an independent person, and even with character. At the beginning of 1996, quarreling with Koshman , who was then prime minister (Chechnya), he left the Chechen government and immediately "interested" the Prosecutor General . Gantamirov himself believes that he was forced to leave the government when the question arose of surrendering Grozny to the Dudayev troops: "I would never give up."

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Bislan Gantamirov was detained in May 1996 on charges of embezzlement of 25 billion rubles allocated by Russia for the restoration of Chechnya ^[3] . In early 1999, the Kuzminsky court of Moscow sentenced him to six years in prison ^[3] . However, only half a year later (after Putin was appointed prime minister), he was pardoned by Yeltsin and released at the end of 1999 (with the official wording - in view of the actual serving of half of the sentence during the investigation) ^[3] .

Since November 12, 1999 - Chairman of the State Council of Chechnya. From December 1999 to May 2000 - First Deputy Plenipotentiary of the Russian Government in Chechnya.

On January 16 or 23 (according to various sources), Gantamirov’s subordinates detained journalist Andrei Babitsky , covering the military operations by the CRI forces , beat him and handed him over to the FSB ^[6] .

Since July 11, 2000, he was First Deputy Head of the Administration of the Chechen Republic, at the same time acting as mayor of Grozny. October 18, 2000 was appointed mayor of Grozny.

From June 20, 2001 to February 2002, he was the chief federal inspector of the office of the plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District .

From February 7, 2002 to September 2, 2003 - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Information and Press of the Chechen Republic.

Currently lives in the Staropoltavsky district of the Volgograd region , is the owner and director of an agricultural enterprise ^[2] .

• Order of Courage
• Award weapon

• “Historical aspects of the emergence of separatism and the causes of the destruction of statehood in Chechnya” (2000)
• “Some historical stages of the creation and development of law enforcement bodies in Russia (on the example of the outskirts of the Russian Empire and some territories of the USSR)” (2000)

• Gantamirov's biography