Nadyr Khachiliev
Nadirshakh Khachilayev | |
|---|---|
Надиршах Хачилаев | |
Official portrait, 1996 | |
| Member of the State Duma | |
| In office 28 December 1996 – 11 September 1998 | |
| Preceded by | Gamid Gamidov |
| Succeeded by | Gadzhi Makhachev |
| Constituency | Makhachkala |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 June 1959 Kuma, Dagestan ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 12 August 2003 (aged 44) Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia |
| Manner of death | Assassination by firearm |
| Children | 6 |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Soviet Union |
| Branch/service | Soviet Army |
Nadirshakh Mugadovich "Nadir" Khachilayev (Russian: Надиршах Мугадович Хачилаев, alternatively Nadyr Khachiliev, Nadir Khachiliev; 10 July 1959 – 12 August 2003) was a Russian Dagestani politician who served as a member of the Russian State Duma 1996 to 1998. He led a brief uprising against the Russian government in 1998, for which he was removed from the Duma and arrested, although he was later released.
He was chairman of the Dagestan branch of the Fund for Peace and the Union of Muslims of Russia, which was designated as an extremist organization by the Ministry of Justice of Russia. In the 1990s and 2000s, he was considered the leader of the Lak people. Khachiliev was assassinated in 2003.