Preceded by Position established Awards Nationality Dargin Name Magomedali Magomedov | Spouse(s) Zulgizhat Magomedova Religion Sunni Islam Children Magomedsalam Magomedov | |
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Party Communist Party of the Soviet Union Similar People Magomedsalam Magomedov, Mukhu Aliyev, Alexander Babakov, Said Amirov, Sergei V Alexashenko | ||
Magomedali Magomedovich Magomedov (Russian: Магомедали Магомедович Магомедов) was chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Dagestan from 1987 to 2006.
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Biography
He was born on 15 June 1930, in Levashi, Levashinsky district, Republic of Dagestan.
He graduated from the Dagestan Teachers Institute in 1952, and in 1968 from the Dagestan Institute of Agriculture.
He became chairman of the Council of State in 1987 under the Soviet system, and was one of the few leaders to keep his post in the post-Soviet Russian Federation. On 26 July 1994, he was elected Chairman of the State Council of Dagestan. On 26 June 1998, he was re-elected to the same post, and on 25 June 2002, again for the third time. He resigned on 19 February 2006, for unclear reasons, and was replaced two days later by Mukhu Aliyev. He is married and he has six children. He is also the father of Magomedsalam Magomedov, who served as president of Dagestan from 2010 to 2013.