1. Salambek Naibovich Khadzhiyev was a Soviet-Russian Chechen petrochemist, businessman and politician who was the first Chairman of the Government of National Revival of the Chechen Republic.
16 Facts About Salambek Khadzhiyev
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Salambek Khadzhiyev specialized in the production of low-pour, high-density petroleum fuels transformations of hydrocarbons on zeolite that contain catalysts.
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Salambek Khadzhiyev was the first and only Chechen to hold a ministerial position in the Soviet Union.
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Salambek Khadzhiyev spent his childhood in the village of Rovnoye in the Dzhambul district of Kazakhstan, where he was deported with his family.
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Salambek Khadzhiyev returned to his homeland in 1957, when the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored.
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Salambek Khadzhiyev graduated from the Grozny State Oil Technical University with a degree in oil and gas process in engineering.
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Salambek Khadzhiyev worked at the Grozny Oil Research Institute, where he rose from junior researcher to a director.
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In 1991, Salambek Khadzhiyev became the Minister of the Petrochemical Industry of the Soviet Union, becoming the first Chechen in the USSR to hold a ministerial position.
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Salambek Khadzhiyev was a member of scientific council and the Interdepartmental Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences and a member of the State Committee for Science and Technology of the USSR on petrochemistry.
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Salambek Khadzhiyev was a member of the editorial board of the journal "Chemistry and Technology of Fuel and Oils" and authored numerous scientific papers.
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In March 1996, Salambek Khadzhiyev participated in a meeting of the VIP club of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation as chairman of the State Committee for Industrial Policy.
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In 1996, Salambek Khadzhiyev Khadzhiev became a member of the board of directors of Ecotech Oil, a large trading company that supplies gasoline to the Moscow Region and regions of Central Russia, and then headed it.
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Salambek Khadzhiyev is the owner of 80 percent of the shares of this company.
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Salambek Khadzhiyev was married to Svetlana Muslimovna Gairbekova and had 3 children: Leila, Aset and Bulat.
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Salambek Khadzhiyev died after a severe long illness in a clinic in Israel on March 2,2018.
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Salambek Khadzhiyev was buried in Chechnya, in his home city of Shali at a family cemetery.