Yamadayev is a
Chechen surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community.
Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
, most famously attributed to the Yamadayev brothers, six brothers from the
teip
Teips (also taip, teyp; Nakh тайпа ''taypa'' : ''family, kin, clan, tribe''Нохчийн-Оьрсийн словарь (Chechen-Russian Dictionary, A.G. Matsiyev, Moscow, 1961), ''also available online:'Чеченско-Русский сл ...
Benoy, participants in the
on the side of the separatists and the
Second Chechen War
The Second Chechen War (russian: Втора́я чече́нская война́, ) took place in Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russia, Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, from Augus ...
on the side of the federal troops:
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Ruslan Yamadayev
Ruslan (Khalid or Halid) Bekmirzayevich Yamadayev (russian: Руслан (Халид) Бекмирзаевич Ямадаев) (10 December 1961 – 24 September 2008) was a Chechen military leader and politician. A member of the high-profile ...
(1961–2008) - colonel of the Russian army, deputy of the State Duma, Hero of Russia.
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Musa Yamadayev
Musa may refer to:
Places
*Mūša, a river in Lithuania and Latvia
*Musa, Azerbaijan, a village in Yardymli Rayon
*Musa, Iran, a village in Ilam Province
* Musa, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Iran
*Musa, Kerman, Iran
* Musa, Bukan, West Azerbaijan P ...
(1968–) - former officer of the
Special Battalion Vostok
Special Battalions ''Vostok'' and ''Zapad'' (russian: Специальные батальоны "Восток" и "Запад", lit. "East" and "West") were two Spetsnaz units of the GRU, the military intelligence agency of Russia, based in Chech ...
, led by his brother Sulim and disbanded in November 2008.
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Dzhabrail Yamadayev
Dzhabrail Bekmirzayevich Yamadayev (16 June 1970 – 5 March 2003) was a Chechen rebel field commander during the First Chechen War. He switched sides together with his brothers, Ruslan and Sulim in 1999 during the outbreak of the Second Che ...
(1970–2003) - lieutenant of the Russian army in the Vostok battalion, Hero of Russia.
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Sulim Yamadayev
Suleiman Bekmirzayevich Yamadayev (; 21 June 1973 – 30 March 2009) was a Chechen rebel commander from the First Chechen War who had switched sides together with his brothers Dzhabrail, Badrudi, Isa and Ruslan in 1999 during the outbreak ...
(1973–2009) - lieutenant colonel of the Russian army, former commander of Vostok battalion, Hero of Russia.
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Isa Yamadayev
Isa or ISA may refer to:
Places
* Isa, Amur Oblast, Russia
* Isa, Kagoshima, Japan
* Isa, Nigeria
* Isa District, Kagoshima, former district in Japan
* Isa Town, middle class town located in Bahrain
* Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
* Mount Is ...
(1975–) - entrepreneur, founder of the construction company Yamad. Member of
Parliament of the Chechen Republic
The Parliament of the Chechen Republic (russian: Парламент Чеченской Республики; ce, Нохчийн Республикан Парламент, Noxçiyn Respublikan Parlament) is the regional parliament of Chechnya, a ...
of the first convocation.
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Badrudi Yamadayev (1977–) - master of sports in boxing, former member of the Vostok battalion.
Chechen-language surnames
Military families
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