Khuseyn Gakayev was one of the most senior field commanders still operating in the North Caucasus prior to his death on 24 January 2013.
13 Facts About Khuseyn Gakayev
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Khuseyn Gakayev was killed by Russian security forces along with his brother Muslim and nine other militants after they were surrounded in the mountains of Vedeno, Chechnya on 24 January 2013.
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Khuseyn Gakayev was born on 8 July 1970 in the village of Kalinovskaya, which is located in the Naur district of Chechnya bordering Mozdok, North Ossetia.
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From spring 2006 until May 2007 Khuseyn Gakayev was commander of the Shali sector of the Eastern Mountain Front.
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Khuseyn Gakayev was appointed to the position by then-president of the ChRI Abdul-Halim Sadulayev at the request of Basayev, who was then Military Emir of the Caucasus Front.
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Khuseyn Gakayev simultaneously served as minister of internal affairs of ChRI from March to October 2007.
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From May 2007 to June 2010, Khuseyn Gakayev was deputy commander of the Southeastern Front and in October 2007 he was named to the same position on the Eastern Front of the newly formed Caucasus Emirate.
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Khuseyn Gakayev was in charge of the Shali Mountain, Shali Plains, Argun and Ataginsky sectors, and from June 2010 to September 2010 he was the wali of Vilayat Nokhchicho.
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Khuseyn Gakayev was one of six brothers, two of which, the older Jamalay and Said-Usman, were killed in fighting during the First Chechen War.
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Khuseyn's sole surviving brother, Muslim Gakayev served as commander of the Shali sector of the Eastern Front, and in 2009 commanded a unit of suicide bombers, until his death alongside Khuseyn.
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From 7 March to 7 October 2007, Khuseyn Gakayev served as the Minister of Internal Affairs in the last cabinet of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria under the chairmanship of Dokka Umarov.
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Khuseyn Gakayev later occupied the same post in Umarov's Interior Ministry of the Vilayat Nokhchicho of the Caucasus Emirate.
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In October 2010, the Chechen government of Ramzan Kadyrov accused Khuseyn Gakayev of organising the August attack on Kadyrov's fortified home village of Tsentoroy while supposedly acting under orders from the exiled Chechen nationalist leader Akhmed Zakayev.