In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Buharovich and the family name is Barayev.
Movsar Barayev
Мовсар Бухарович Бараев
Born
(1979-10-26)26 October 1979
Argun, Checheno–Ingush ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died
26 October 2002(2002-10-26) (aged 23)
Moscow, Russia
Nationality
Chechen
Other names
Movsar Suleimanov
Known for
Moscow hostage crisis
Movsar Buharovich Barayev (Suleimanov) (Russian: Мовсар Бухарович Бараев; 26 October 1979 – 26 October 2002), earlier known as Suleimanov, was a Chechen Islamist militia leader during the Second Chechen War, who led the seizure of a Moscow theater that led to the deaths of over 170 people by Russian special forces.
Movsar Buharovich Barayev (Suleimanov) (Russian: Мовсар Бухарович Бараев; 26 October 1979 – 26 October 2002), earlier known as Suleimanov, was a Chechen...
2002, resulting in the taking of 912 hostages. The attackers, led by MovsarBarayev, claimed allegiance to the Islamist separatist movement in Chechnya...
by Barayev's 22-year-old nephew and successor Movsar and featured his widow Zura Barayeva, both of whom died in the attack. The remnants of Barayev's group...
some 800 hostages in the Russian capital; by then, SPIR was headed by MovsarBarayev—the nephew of Arbi (killed in 2001)—and likely never had more than 100...
shows a woman being beheaded by alleged henchmen of Chechen commander MovsarBarayev Nick Berg, U.S. citizen, beheaded May 7, 2004, in Iraq by Muntada al-Ansar...
theater hostage crisis was provided by its two principal perpetrators, MovsarBarayev and Abu Said. Although he initially denied responsibility for the 2004...
and low on ammunition. At that point, the notorious Chechen warlord Arbi Barayev contacted Gelayev, promising him aid and transportation to a safe area...
Peacekeeping Brigade Shamil Basayev, Ibn al-Khattab, Ramzan Akhmadov and Arbi Barayev, invaded the neighboring Russian republic of Dagestan in support of the...
for the Moscow theater hostage crisis (although the siege was led by MovsarBarayev) in which 50 Chechens held about 800 people hostage; Russian forces...
and an end to the Second Chechen War. The siege was officially led by MovsarBarayev. Due to the disposition of the theatre, special forces would have had...
reported that "the gas had such an influence on [Chechen siege leader Movsar] Barayev that he couldn't get up from [his] desk". Russian doctors who helped...
He finished a distant second to Kadyrov in 2003 with 5.7% of the votes. Movsar Khamidov, a colonel in the Chechen department of the Federal Security Service...