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Died 3 March 1861, Khasavyurt, Russia Similar Imam Alimsultanov, Imam Shamil, Sheikh Mansur, Timur Mutsurayev, Zelimxan | ||
Baysangur of Benoa (Chechen: Бенойн БойсгӀар) (born 1794, Benoy, Chechnya - died 3 March 1861, Khasavyurt, Dagestan) was a 19th-century Chechen commander. He was also known as Naib Imam Shamil. Baysangur participated in the Caucasian War of 1817-1864.
In battles with Russian troops 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 Chechnya.
On May 8, 1860 Baysangur and former nabobs Shamil Uma Duev, and Atabi Atayev raised a new uprising in Chechnya. In June of the same year Baysangur's squad defeated the Russian Major-General Musa Kunduhova in combat near the town Phachu. 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.