Biography Makhach Dahadaev

Member of the Extraordinary Military Council. He was the organizer and commander of the Dagestan Red Army. He led the fighting against Colonel Lazar Bichekhov, who invaded the territory of the Dagestan region. In childhood, those around them began to call the boy “Mahach”. After the successful graduation, on the recommendation of the director, he entered the preparatory department of Temir-Khan-Shurinsky Real School.

From the year he studied at the St. Petersburg Institute of Railways of Emperor Alexander I. During his studies, he became close to revolutionary organizations and joined the Russian Social-Democratic Workers Party in the year. In the year he returned to Dagestan. He was arrested twice. He was convicted, but released on a monetary security deposit introduced in November in November.

After graduating from the institute, Makhach went to serve on the Maykop railway in the year, where he received his appointment to the position of engineer. After the February Revolution, he became part of the government - the Provisional Dagestan Regional Executive Committee. As a deputy from Dagestan, he took part in the I Gorsky Congress in Vladikavkaz in early May, by the decision of which the Central Committee of the Union of the Highlanders of the North Caucasus and Dagestan was created.

At the end of May of the same year, Dahadaev became part of the Dagestan Socialist Group and elected to the All -Russian Constituent Assembly. In political activity, Makhach Dahadaev showed himself as a consistent supporter of the establishment of power in the form of advice. He had quite sharp and categorical statements regarding the Bolsheviks. Since April, he was part of the regional BCK, where he held the position of head of the military department, preserving the same post during his reorganization in June in the regional Executive Committee.

At the same time, he was appointed commissar of the regional military commissariat. He was a member of the Extraordinary Military Council along with the Buinaksky Ulubi. He was engaged in the organization of the Dagestan Red Army, which he headed on July 11. As the commander, Makhach led the fighting against the territory of the Dagestan region, in accordance with the plans of the Entente to counteract Turkish-German domination at the Caspian Sea, the detachment of Colonel Lazar Bichekhov.

For more than a month he kept in frontal battles that erupted to the North Caucasus through Dagestan, excellently equipped and supported by the British Armada of the Bichekhov troops. Gradually, losing grounding by the Russian-Armenian troops and already having any opportunities to withstand the units of Bichekhov, Dahadaev received from the regional executive committee the amount equal to 5 million rubles in order to form new detachments in the mountains for further organization of the struggle and moved towards the upper Jengutai, where, according to a pre-conceded agreement, he was supposed to meet the commander of the horse regiment Timoshinin.

Makhach Dakhadaev died on October 4, by an ambush, a detachment, led by Hadji-Gasan.

He was buried in a mass grave in the city of Buinaksk. By the decision of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of July 10, the city of Petrovsk-Port was renamed in honor of the outstanding revolutionary in Makhachkala. Makhach Dahadaeva family:.