Gaidar Gadzhiyev

Gaidar Malikovich Gadzhiyev (Гаджиев, Гейдар Маликович) (August 5, 1953 – December 1, 2001) was a Russian (ethnic Avar) Strategic Missile Troops major general. He has been a deputy military commandant of Dagestan since 1998, and was in charge of the Urus-Martanovsky District in Chechnya when he was killed in suicide attack by a young local woman Ayza Gazuyeva in revenge for him personally having killed her husband in front of her eyes.^[1] He was awarded the Order of Courage in 2001, and posthumously the medal and title of Hero of the Russian Federation "for courage and heroism in the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus" in 2002.

References

1. Russia: Nord-Ost Anniversary Recalls Ascent Of Female Suicide Bomber, RFE/RL, October 27, 2006.