Salambek Khadzhiev | |
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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 by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Doku Zavgayev |
2nd Minister of the Chemical and Oil Refining Industry of the Soviet Union | |
In office 9 April 1991 – 28 August 1991 | |
Appointed by | Valentin Pavlov |
Preceded by | Nikolay Vasilievich Lemaev |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Shali, Checheno-Ingush ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Chechnya, Russia) | 7 January 1941
Died | 2 March 2018 Israel | (aged 77)
Alma mater | Grozny State Oil Technical University |
Profession | Petrochemist |
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]