caption serviceyears branch commands death_date death_place birth_place allegiance awards imgsize battles birth_date rank article_title name
sulim yamadayev in uniform 1999 -- 2008 20px gru -lrb- direct subordination -rrb- special battalion vostok 30 march 2009 -lrb- aged 35 -rrb- dubai , united arab emirates benoy ussr village , nozhay-yurtovsky district , chechen-ingush assr , 22px - 2009 -rrb- chechen republic of ichkeria 22px russia -lrb- 1999 hero of the russian federation 250px first war 2008 south ossetia war chechen war -lrb- separatist side -rrb- second chechen 21 june 1973 lieutenant colonel sulim yamadayev
 suleiman -lrb- sulim -rrb- bekmirzayevich yamadayev
sulim yamadayev

sulim bekmirzayevich yamadayev -lrb- ; 21 june 1973 -- 30 march 2009 -rrb- was a chechen rebel commander from the first chechen war who had switched sides together with his brothers dzhabrail , badrudi , isa and ruslan in 1999 during the outbreak of the second chechen war .
he was `` de facto '' commander of the russian military special battalion vostok unit belonging to the gru .
as such , until 2008 , he was officially in command of the biggest pro-moscow militia outside the control of the current chechen president ramzan kadyrov .
from 1 to 22 august august 2008 yamadayev was wanted in russia on a federal warrant .
nevertheless , he served as one of the russian military commanders in russia 's war with georgia during the same period .
on 5 march 2003 , sulim 's brother dzhabrail yamadayev was assassinated by a bomb .
on 24 september 2008 sulim 's brother , ruslan yamadayev , was shot dead on smolenskaya embankment in moscow .
initial press responses reported name of the victim as `` sulim yamadayev '' ; the name was corrected later .
sulim yamadayev was shot in dubai on 28 march 2009 , and died in hospital on 30 march 2009 .
