Salambek Khadzhiyev

Salambek Khadzhiev
Саламбек Хаджиев
Khadzhiyev in 2017
1st Chairman of the Government of National Revival of the Chechen Republic
In office
16 January 1995 – 23 October 1995
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byDoku Zavgayev
2nd Minister of the Chemical and Oil Refining Industry of the Soviet Union
In office
9 April 1991 – 28 August 1991
Appointed byValentin Pavlov
Preceded byNikolay Vasilievich Lemaev
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Personal details
Born(1941-01-07)7 January 1941
Shali, Checheno-Ingush ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Chechnya, Russia)
Died2 March 2018(2018-03-02) (aged 77)
Israel
Alma materGrozny State Oil Technical University
ProfessionPetrochemist

Salambek Naibovich Khadzhiyev (Russian: Саламбе́к Наи́бович Хаджи́ев; 7 January 1941 – 2 March 2018) was a Soviet-Russian Chechen petrochemist, businessman and politician who was the first Chairman of the Government of National Revival of the Chechen Republic.[1] He specialized in the production of low-pour, high-density petroleum fuels transformations of hydrocarbons on zeolite that contain catalysts. He was also the first and only Chechen to hold a ministerial position in the Soviet Union.[2] In 1991, he headed the Ministry of Chemical and Petrochemical Industry of the USSR.[3] During the First Chechen War in 1995 he was the chairman of the Government of the National Revival of Chechnya.[2]

  1. ^ "Chechen Republic". 28 September 2011. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b "CHECHEN REPUBLIC OF ICCHKERI: general review". www.igpi.ru. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  3. ^ Erlanger, Steven (29 March 1995). "Grozny Journal; Picking Up, After Guns Have Done Their Worst". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 19 March 2022.