Shamil Basayev - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!
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Updated on January 08, 2026
Explore Shamil Basayev net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! His family is believed to have an extensive history of participation in Chechen opposition against Russian rule. His grandfather was an advocate against the failed attempt to establish a breakaway North Caucasian Emirate after the Russian Revolution. The Basayevs as well as the majority of the part of Chechens, and the majority of Chechen population, were transferred into Kazakhstan in World War II on the directives of NKVD leader Lavrenti Beria in the hope of cutting off support for the insurgency that erupted in 1940-44 Chechnya. They were allowed to return after they were granted deportation by Nikita Khrushchev in the year 1957. In this article, we will discover how old is Shamil Basayev? Who is Shamil Basayev dating now & how much money does Shamil Basayev have?
| Name | Shamil Basayev |
| First Name | Shamil |
| Last Name | Basayev |
| Occupation | Warlord |
| Birthday | January 14 |
| Birth Year | 1965 |
| Place of Birth | Dyshne-Vedeno |
| Home Town | |
| Birth Country | Russia |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Parents | Salman Basayev, Nura Basayeva |
| Siblings | Shirvani Basayev, Zinaida Basayeva, Islam Basayev |
| Spouse | Elina Ersenoyeva |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
Shamil Basayev Biography
Shamil Basayev is one of the most popular and richest Warlord who was born on January 14, 1965 in Dyshne-Vedeno, Russia. The man reportedly tried to apply to the law school at the Moscow State University but failed and enrolled instead in into the Moscow Engineering Institute of Land Management in 1987. But, he was subsequently dismissed for failing to meet the requirements in 1988. He then was employed as a computer salesperson in Moscow and was in partnership with an local Chechen businessman named Supyan Taramov. In a bizarre twist, the two men were on opposite side in the Chechen conflict, in which Taramov was a patron of the pro-Russian Chechen militia (Sobaka magazine’s report on Basayev stated that Taramov had provided and “outfitted” this group of pro-Russian Chechens as well as identified as “Shamil Hunters”). Later, in interviews with Taramov claimed that the fact that he had hired Basayev to do favors for an acquaintance of his and that the latter was a mediocre worker.
According to Paul J. Murphy, “Russian military intelligence turned a blind eye to the 1991 terrorist arrest warrant against Basayev to train him and his detachment in Abkhazia, and the Russians even helped direct Basayev’s combat operations” and “long after the war, Basayev praised the professionalism and courage of his Russian trainers in Abkhazia – praise that led some of his enemies in Grozny, even President Maskhadov, to later call him a “longtime GRU agent”.
A few months later, in November 1991, the Chechen nationalist leader Dzhokhar Dudayev unilaterally declared independence from the newly formed Russian Federation. In response, Yeltsin announced a state of emergency and dispatched troops to the border of Chechnya. It was then that Basayev began his long career as an insurgent—seeking to draw international attention to the crisis. Basayev, Lom-Ali Chachayev, and the group’s leader, Said-Ali Satuyev, a former airline pilot suffering from schizophrenia, hijacked an Aeroflot Tu-154 plane, en route from Mineralnye Vody in Russia to Ankara on 9 November 1991, and threatened to blow up the aircraft unless the state of emergency was lifted. The hijacking was resolved peacefully in Turkey, with the plane and passengers being allowed to return safely and the hijackers given safe passage back to Chechnya.
Basayev is a fervent soccer athlete, graduated from the school at Dyshne-Vedeno in 1982, at the age of 17 and went on to spend the following two years serving in the Soviet military, serving as firefighter. In the following three years of his life, he was employed on the Aksaiisky state farm located in the Volgograd region in southern Russia before making the move to Moscow.
Shamil Salmanovich Basayev (Chechen: Shamil’ Basaev , Russian: Shamil’ Salmanovich Basayev 14 January 1965 10 July , 2006) was a leader in the senior ranks in Chechen. Chechen movement.
Basayev had four wives, a Chechen woman who was killed in the 1990s, an Abkhaz woman he met while fighting as a mercenary leader against Georgia, and a Cossack he was said to have married on Valentine’s Day, 2005. A fourth secret wife, Elina Ersenoyeva, was apparently forced to marry Basayev under threat of her two brothers’ lives, and subsequently hid the identity of her husband from her friends and family. Following revelations about the marriage, Elina was abducted in November 2006, four months after the death of Basayev, allegedly by the Kadyrovtsy (“pro-Kremlin” Chechen forces). She has never been found.
Shamil Basayev Net Worth
Shamil is one of the richest Warlord from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shamil Basayev's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)
Shamil Basayev was born within the Dyshne-Vedeno village near Vedeno in south-eastern Chechnya in 1965. He was the son of Chechen parents who were from Benoy Teip. As per Gennady Troshev, he is of some distant Russian roots. The name was given to him by Imam Shamil, the third imam of Chechnya and Dagestan and one of the chiefs of the Chechen-Avar anti-Russian forces during the Caucasian War.
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Warlord |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
Basayev moved to Azerbaijan in 1992, where he assisted Azerbaijani forces in their unsuccessful war against Armenian fighters in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. He was said to have led a battalion-strength Chechen contingent. According to Azeri Colonel Azer Rustamov, in 1992, “hundreds of Chechen volunteers rendered us invaluable help in these battles led by Shamil Basayev and Salman Raduyev”. Basayev was said to be one of the last fighters to leave Shusha (see Capture of Shusha).
In 1993, Basayev lead the KNK corps, this unit under Basayev carried out war crimes in Georgia, decapitating Georgian civilians.
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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Later in 1992, Basayev traveled to Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia, to assist the local separatist movement against the Georgian government’s attempts to regain control of the region. Basayev became the commander-in-chief of the forces of the Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus (a volunteer unit of pan-Caucasian nationalists, people from the Caucasus). Their involvement was crucial in the Abkhazian war and in October 1993 the Georgian government suffered a decisive military defeat. It was rumored that the volunteers were trained and supplied by some part of the Russian army’s GRU military intelligence service. According to The Independent journalist Patrick Cockburn, “cooperation between Mr Basayev and the Russian army is not so surprising as it sounds. In 1992–93 he is widely believed to have received assistance from the GRU when he and his brother Shirvani fought in Abkhazia, a breakaway part of Georgia.” No specific evidence was given.
Who is Shamil Basayev Dating?
According to our records, Shamil Basayev married to Elina Ersenoyeva . As of January 13, 2024, Shamil Basayev’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Shamil Basayev. You may help us to build the dating records for Shamil Basayev!The First Chechen War began when Russian forces invaded Chechnya on 11 December 1994, to depose the government of Dzhokhar Dudayev. With the outbreak of war, Dudayev made Basayev one of the front-line commanders. Basayev took an active role in the resistance, successfully commanding his “Abkhaz Battalion.” The unit inflicted major losses on Russian forces in the Battle of Grozny, Chechnya’s capital, which lasted from December 1994 to February 1995. Basayev’s men were among the last fighters to abandon the city.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
Shamil Basayev height Not available right now. Shamil weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
| Height | Unknown |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
When some hardline members of Soviet government attempted to stage a coup d’état in August 1991, Basayev allegedly joined supporters of Russian President Boris Yeltsin on the barricades around the Russian White House in central Moscow, armed with hand grenades.
Having already been noticed in Afghanistan, where he fought as a young man, and then in Abkhazia in Georgia, Basayev will further attract the attention of Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency, the ISI : under Pakistani command, and after meeting many powerful personalities of the army, including the DG ISI Javed Ashraf Qazi, he would be one of the 1,500-strong Afghan mujahideen contingent which fought the Armenians during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and in April 1994, the ISI would eventually arrange “a refresher course for Basayev and some of his NCOs in guerrilla warfare and Islamic learning in the Amir Munawid Camp in Khost province in Afghanistan”, with Basayev also having further specialized training in Pakistan proper, in cities like Rawalpindi, Peshawar and Muridke, near Lahore. They were also given Stingers, anti-tank rockets and advanced explosives, which would be later used to shot down Russian combat airplanes and dozens of helicopters. Ultimately, hundreds of Chechens would be trained in Khost, under the ISI as well as the Pakistan-based Islamist outfit Harkat-ul-Ansar, and one of its commanders, Abu Abdullah Jaffa, once in Pakistan’s Northern Light Infantry, would work closely with Basayev over the years, as for instance he’s supposed to be the one who planned the invasion of Dagestan.
Facts & Trivia
Shamil Ranked on the list of most popular Warlord. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Shamil Basayev celebrates birthday on January 14 of every year.
In an attempt to force a stop to the Russian advance, some Chechen forces resorted to a series of terrorist attacks directed against civilian targets outside the area that they claimed. Basayev led the most infamous such attack, the Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis on 14 June 1995, less than two weeks after he lost his family in the air raids. Basayev’s large band seized the Budyonnovsk hospital in southern Russia and the 1,600 people inside for a period of several days. At least 129 civilians died and 415 were wounded during the crisis as the Russian special forces repeatedly attempted to free the hostages by force. Although Basayev failed in his principal demand for the removal of Russian forces from Chechnya, he did successfully negotiate a stop to the Russian advance and an initiation of peace talks with the Russian government, saving the Chechen resistance by giving them time to regroup and recover. Basayev and his fighters then returned to Chechnya under cover of human shields.
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