About Ziya Bazhayev
Lived 1960 – 2000 (aged 39). Ziya Bazhayev was a Russian businessperson.
Ziya 'Ziyaudi' Yusupovich Bazhayev (; July 11, 1960 — March 9, 2000) was a prominent Russian businessman of Chechen origin specializing in oil trading.
During the 1990s, he was president of Sidanko , the Swiss company Lia Oil from 1992 to 1995, the state unitary oil company in war-torn Chechnya, Southern Oil Company (YUNCO) and the oil company Alliance Group , which he founded in April 1998. With numerous personnel from Sidanko, Alliance gained control of the Khabarovsk Refinery at Khabarovsk, which previously was owned by Sidanko, and, a year later, gained control of the Kherson Refinery in Ukraine.
He died in Moscow during a crash of a Yakovlev Yak-40 aircraft shortly after takeoff on March 9, 2000, together with a Russian journalist Artyom Borovik.
Literature Musa Geshaev. Famous Chechens. — Moscow: Musaizdat, 2006. — Vol. 4. — pp. 126–159.
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Who was Ziya Bazhayev?
Russian businessman (1960-2000)
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Ziya Bazhayev was born on 11 July 1960 in Achkhoy-Martan.
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Ziya Bazhayev died on 9 March 2000 in Khimki.
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Ziya Bazhayev was a businessperson.
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Ziya Bazhayev was Russian.
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