Hamzat Gutseriev

Khamzat Safarbekovich Gutseriev (; born 14 October 1954) is a Russian former law-enforcement official and politician. He held the rank of lieutenant general of militsiya, served as minister of internal affairs of the Republic of Ingushetia from 1999 to 2002, and was a member of the Federation Council from 2004 to 2006. He represented the administration of Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug in the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Russia.

Biography Gutseriev was born on 14 October 1954 in Akmolinsk into an Ingush family deported to the Kazakh SSR. His father, Safarbek Gutseriev, worked as a senior investigator for especially important cases in the Akmolinsk regional directorate of the NKVD; he was arrested in 1948 and released six months after Joseph Stalin's death. His brothers include businessmen Mikhail Gutseriev and . In 2014, Forbes described him as a member of the board of directors and first deputy general director of Mospromstroy. In Mospromstroy's 2016 annual report, Gutseriev was listed as chairman of the board of directors.

Gutseriev is the author of more than 100 academic publications, including five monographs. His candidacy was supported by former Ingush president Ruslan Aushev. The court stated that after registering as a candidate Gutseriev had not taken election leave, and that he had left the post of interior minister of Ingushetia only on 7 March 2002. Zyazikov, who was supported by the federal authorities, won with 53% of the vote.

Awards and honours Gutseriev was awarded the Order of Courage and a Certificate of Honour of the Federation Council. He holds the titles of Honoured Worker of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and Honoured Worker of Physical Culture and Sport of Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug.