Said Buryatsky (10 February 1982-2 March 2010), born Alexander Alexandrovitch Tikhomirov, was a Buryat militant leader who commanded Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs during the Second Chechen War.
Biography[]
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Tikhomirov was born on 10 February 1982 in Ulan-Ude, Buryatia, in the Soviet Union (USSR) to a Buryat Buddhist family (his mother was a Russian Orthodox Christian). He converted to Islam at the age of 15 and changed his name to "Said Buryatsky", studying in Cairo in Egypt and Kuwait and in 2008 he moved to the Caucasus. Buryatsky allied with Dokka Umarov and became a leader of the Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs, and in 2009 he was responsible for the bombing of the Nevsky Express that killed 28 people and wounded 90. In 2010, the FSB attacked Ekazhevo village in Ingushetia and found a bomb factory in Buryatsky's house, where they killed him.