Mairbek Sheripov

Mairbek Sheripov (1905 – November 7, 1942) was one of the leaders of Chechen insurgency against the Soviet Union in the 1940s.

Mairbek Sheripov
Native name
Майрбек Шерипов
Born1905
Died7 November 1942

Mairbek Sheripov was a younger brother of Aslanbek Sheripov, a Bolshevik revolutionary killed in a battle with the Denikinites in 1919. A jurist by profession, he worked for the Soviet government in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR. In 1941, he joined a Chechen insurrection led by Khasan Israilov. He was killed on November 7, 1942 in a Soviet reprisal raid.[1][2]

References
  1. Moshe Gammer (2006), The Lone Wolf and the Bear, p. 162. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, ISBN 1-85065-748-3
  2. John B. Dunlop (), Russia confronts Chechnya: roots of a separatist conflict, p. 58. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-63619-1
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