Anzor Astemirov (3 December 1976-24 March 2010) was a Kabardian rebel who was the commander of Yarmuk Jamaat, a Circassian organization that sought to fight Russia, from 2005 to 2010, succeeding Muslim Atayev and preceding Asker Dzhappuyev.
Biography[]
Anzor Astemirov was born on 3 December 1976 in Kremenchuk in the Ukrainian SSR to a Muslim Kabardian family, formerly princes who ruled the Kabarday people. He studied Islamic theology at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia before becoming an Al-Jazeera correspondent, fighting in Chechnya on the opposition side during the First Chechen War as an Islamist volunteer. He soon rose to become the leader of Yarmuk Jamaat, a Muslim liberation front that sought to create a new Muslim state in the Caucasus. In 2007 he had a ₽3,000,000 bounty on his head from Russia, and in 2010 he was tracked down to Nalchik in Kabardino-Balkaria. Astemirov was tracked down by FSB and he shot and wounded a police officer, but he was killed while fleeing.