# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shamil-basayev
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:24.408Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shamil-basayev"
name: "Shamil Basayev"
slug: "shamil-basayev"
description: "Shamil Salmanovich Basayev, also known by his kunya Abu Idris, was a Chechen guerrilla leader who served as a senior military commander in the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. He held the rank of brigadier general in the Armed Forces of Ichkeria, and was posthumously declared generalissimo. As a military commander in the separatist armed forces of Chechnya, one of his most notable battles was the separatist recapture of Grozny in 1996, which he personally planned and commanded together with Aslan Maskhadov. He also masterminded several of the worst terrorist attacks that occurred in Russia."
tagline: "Chechen militant Islamist leader (1965-2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shamil_Basaev2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1965-01-14"
deathDate: "2006-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           64.02
  momentum:             21.36743186265053
  historical:           28.27626
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Shamil Basayev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شامل باساييف"
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    title: "شامیل باسایئف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шаміль Басаеў"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shamil Basáyev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Xamil Basaiev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شامل باسایف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Šamil Basajev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "שאמיל בסאייב"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samil_Baszajev"
    title: "Samil Baszajev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Շամիլ Բասաև"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/%C5%A0amil'_Salmanovi%C4%8D_Basaev"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump