Chechen people

The Chechens ( ; , , Old Chechen: Нахчой, Naxçoy), historically also known as Kisti and Durdzuks, are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group of the Nakh peoples native to the North Caucasus. They are the largest ethnic group in the region and refer to themselves as Nokhchiy (; singular Nokhchi, Nokhcho, Nakhchuo or Nakhche). The vast majority of Chechens are Muslims and live in Chechnya, an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation.

Russian politician and head of the Chechen Republic

Chechen warlord (1973-2009)

Russian–Chechen military leader

Olympic weightlifter

Russian politician

Kunta-Ḥājjī al-Iliskhānī (Kishiev) (; 1800 – 1867) was a Chechen Muslim mystic, the founder of a Sufi branch named Zikrism, and an ideologue of nonviolence and passive resistance. He was a follower of the Qadiriyya Sufi order.

Russian Chechen Islamic religious leader

Russian politician

300px|thumb|Ethnographic map of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Aukhs green 300px|thumb|Aukh (American map of the Caucasus 1910). Aukhs () are an ethnographic group of Chechens. Aukhs are currently living in the territories of Novolaksky (former Aukh District), Khasavyurtovsky, Babayurtovsky and Kazbekovsky (Western part of the Aukh) areas of modern central Dagestan, along the rivers Yamansu, Yaryksu, Aktash and Aksai (earlier Eastern Chechnya). They speak the Aukh dialect of the Chechen language.

Russian-born Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler

first Chechen woman pilot