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. 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. In 1991, he headed the Ministry of Chemical and Petrochemical Industry of the USSR. During the First Chechen War in 1995 he was the chairman of the Government of the National Revival of Chechnya.