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Shamil Basayev

1965 - 2006

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Shamil Salmanovich Basayev (Chechen: Салман ВоӀ Шамиль; Salman Voj Şamil; Russian: Шамиль Салманович Басаев; 14 January 1965 – 10 July 2006), also known by his kunya "Abu Idris", was a Chechen guerrilla leader who served as a senior military commander in the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. He held the rank of brigadier general in the Armed Forces of Ichkeria, and was posthumously declared generalissimo. As a military commander in the separatist armed forces of Chechnya, one of his most notable battles was the separatist recapture of Grozny in 1996, which he personally planned and commanded together with Aslan Maskhadov. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shamil Basayev has received more than 2,089,010 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Shamil Basayev is the 76th most popular extremist (down from 65th in 2019), the 469th most popular biography from Russia (down from 401st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Shamil Basayev ranks 76 out of 283. Before him are Gary Ridgway, Willi Herold, Charles Sobhraj, Hermine Braunsteiner, Jordan Belfort, and Frank Sheeran. After him are Ma Barker, Emperor Norton, Wadie Haddad, Matija Gubec, James Earl Ray, and Vincenzo Peruggia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Shamil Basayev ranks 32. Before him are Infanta Cristina of Spain, Oleksandr Syrskyi, Brooke Shields, Ange Postecoglou, Viola Davis, and Slash. After him are Khaled Hosseini, Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, Diane Lane, Michael Bay, Moby, and Mick Foley. Among people deceased in 2006, Shamil Basayev ranks 62. Before him are Karel Appel, Ta Mok, Robert Bruce Merrifield, James Van Allen, Murray Bookchin, and David Bronstein. After him are Glenn Ford, Angelica Rozeanu, Joachim Fest, Telê Santana, Aaron Spelling, and Richard Fleischer.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Shamil Basayev ranks 469 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Radishchev (1749), Naina Yeltsina (1932), Grigory Sokolov (1950), Nadezhda von Meck (1831), Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (1865), and Iziaslav II of Kiev (1097). After him are Pavel Milyukov (1859), Vladimir Bukovsky (1942), Rasul Gamzatov (1923), Ilya Ulyanov (1831), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), and Nikolai Kardashev (1932).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Russia

Among extremists born in Russia, Shamil Basayev ranks 2. Before him are Pavlik Morozov (1918). After him are Wilhelm Voigt (1849), Dokka Umarov (1964), Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov (1874), Alexander Pichushkin (1974), and Mikhail Popkov (1964).

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