Baysangur of Benoa

Baysangur of Beno (Chechen: Бенойн БойсгӀар)[1] (born 1794, Benoy, Vedensky District, Chechnya – died 3 March 1861, Khasavyurt, Chechnya) was a 19th-century Chechen commander. He was one of the naibs of Imam Shamil.[2] Baysangur participated in the Caucasian War of 1817–1864.[2]

Baysangur of Beno
Nickname(s)"Tash Adam" (Man of Stone)
Born1794
Benoy, Chechnya
DiedMarch 3, 1861
Khasavyurt, Chechnya

Biography

In battles against Imperial Russian army he lost an arm, a leg, and an eye. He was tied to his horse so that he could stay in the saddle. On August 25, 1859, after the siege of the fortress, Gunib Imam Shamil decided to surrender. After the surrender of Shamil prisoner Baysangur with his party broke through the encirclement and left the king's troops in Caucasus.[1][3]

On May 8, 1860, Baysangur and former naibs Shamil Uma Duev, and Atabi Atayev raised a new uprising in Chechnya. In June of the same year Baysangur's squad defeated the Russian Ossetian Muslim Major-General Musa Kundukhov in combat near the town Fachu. Atabi Atayeva rebels thwarted attempts to strengthen Evdokimovsky, and the Dueva Minds attachment was freed from the Russian villages of the Argun Gorge. General rebel forces reached at that moment 1,500 people. In November, they moved against eight hundred Cossacks, 9 infantry battalions, and four rifle companies.

The tomb of Baysangur.

Death

Alarmed by the uprising of Baysangur, the Russian Army decided to make immediate action. With assists from Musa Kundukhov, Nikolai Kolovachyov and Artsu Chermoyev, the Russian Army started to round up around the village of Bergatoy thanks for earlier intelligence information of Baysangur's location. Kundukhov used brute force and extreme brutality to crush every Chechen villages remaining, resulting with 15 villages destroyed. Losing the hideout, Baysangur and his men returned to Benoy, tried to keep the resistance, but it was eventually crushed and they were captured, including Baysangur.[4][5]

Baysangur was imprisoned in Khasavyurt and was later sentenced to death by hanging by authority of Major General Pavel Kempert. He was hanged on March 1, 1861.[6]

Since his death, his story of the famed last stand against Russian Army has been popular among Chechens as an example of Chechen heroism.

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References
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