The artist Vadim Kadzhayev painted the portrait of Akhmad-Khadzhi Kadyrov in 2013. He depicted the first Chechen president in national clothes: a shirt with a high-necked collar, a cherkeska (long-waisted collarless outer garment), a burka (felt coat), and a sheepskin hat. There is a mountainside behind Kadyrov.
Akhmad Kadyrov was born in Kazakhstan on August 23, 1951, when his parents were in exile. The future president lived the first six years of his life in the village that is known as Malaya Saran’ in the Karaganda region. Later, in 1957, the Kadyrov family went back to their native land into the village of Tsentaroy.
When Akhmad Kadyrov was 17, he graduated from senior school and started a combine harvester program. A year later, he joined a rice state-run farm and stayed there for two years. Then he moved to Central Russia and later to Siberia to look for a job. He returned only in 1980. Almost immediately, he was sent to study in Uzbekistan (at the Miri Arab madrasa, a religious school for theology) by the Gudermes mosque. Akhmad Kadyrov studied there for two years, then enrolled in the Tashkent Islamic Institute and graduated in 1986.
Kadyrov’s religious education allowed him to become a representative of the Imam in Gudermes. In 1989, he founded the first Islam Institute in the North Caucasus in the Kurchaloy village and was its rector for approximately one year. After that, the future president went to Jordan and was accepted to another one of the universities there.
The Chechen Republic was proclaimed the independent Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in 1991. Akhmad Kadyrov became its religious leader — the Mufti (a Muslim legal expert who is empowered to give rulings on religious matters) of the Chechen Republic.
Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Akhmad Kadyrov the head of the Chechen Republic administration in 2001, and later, in 2003, its President. However, he occupied this position just for some months. There was an act of terrorism at the parade in Grozny on May 9, 2004. Kadyrov died during the attack. He was buried in his native Tsentaroy village. Since 2019, it has been known as Akhmat-Yurt — in memory of the first president of the Chechen Republic.
On May 10, 2004, according to the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Akhmad Kadyrov was postmortem awarded the title of Hero of Russia for his courage and bravery shown during the rebuilding and restoration of the Chechen Republic after the war campaigns.
Akhmad Kadyrov was born in Kazakhstan on August 23, 1951, when his parents were in exile. The future president lived the first six years of his life in the village that is known as Malaya Saran’ in the Karaganda region. Later, in 1957, the Kadyrov family went back to their native land into the village of Tsentaroy.
When Akhmad Kadyrov was 17, he graduated from senior school and started a combine harvester program. A year later, he joined a rice state-run farm and stayed there for two years. Then he moved to Central Russia and later to Siberia to look for a job. He returned only in 1980. Almost immediately, he was sent to study in Uzbekistan (at the Miri Arab madrasa, a religious school for theology) by the Gudermes mosque. Akhmad Kadyrov studied there for two years, then enrolled in the Tashkent Islamic Institute and graduated in 1986.
Kadyrov’s religious education allowed him to become a representative of the Imam in Gudermes. In 1989, he founded the first Islam Institute in the North Caucasus in the Kurchaloy village and was its rector for approximately one year. After that, the future president went to Jordan and was accepted to another one of the universities there.
The Chechen Republic was proclaimed the independent Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in 1991. Akhmad Kadyrov became its religious leader — the Mufti (a Muslim legal expert who is empowered to give rulings on religious matters) of the Chechen Republic.
Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Akhmad Kadyrov the head of the Chechen Republic administration in 2001, and later, in 2003, its President. However, he occupied this position just for some months. There was an act of terrorism at the parade in Grozny on May 9, 2004. Kadyrov died during the attack. He was buried in his native Tsentaroy village. Since 2019, it has been known as Akhmat-Yurt — in memory of the first president of the Chechen Republic.
On May 10, 2004, according to the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Akhmad Kadyrov was postmortem awarded the title of Hero of Russia for his courage and bravery shown during the rebuilding and restoration of the Chechen Republic after the war campaigns.
