Zelimkhan Gushmazukayev (also Zelimkhan Kharachoevsky) or better simply known as Zelimkhan (January 1872; Kharachoy, Terek Oblast – 26 September 1913) was a Chechen outlaw (known locally as an abrek) who gained fame in the late Russian Empire due to his spectacular robberies and violent struggle with the Tsarist authorities. He has been mythologized as a version of a Chechen Robin Hood. Today the name Zelimkhan is given to Chechen and Ingush children.
Zelimkhan Gushmazukayev (also Zelimkhan Kharachoevsky) or better simply known as Zelimkhan (January 1872; Kharachoy, Terek Oblast – 26 September 1913) was a Chechen outlaw (known locally as an abrek) who gained fame in the late Russian Empire due to his spectacular robberies and violent struggle with the Tsarist authorities. He has been mythologized as a version of a Chechen Robin Hood. Today the name Zelimkhan is given to Chechen and Ingush children. Zelimkhan was an abrek, a raider of the Cossacks and Russian colonists. He stole mainly to feed Chechens, and because the Cossacks were living on the Chechens land, which was extremely fertile. Without control of these fertile lands, the Chechens became impoverished. To solve this problem, abreks, such as Zelimkhan and his Ingush comrade-in-arms, Sulom-Beck Sagopshinski, raided targets such as the Cossacks, Russian banks, Vladikavkaz mint, and the Czar's post which was transported on the Georgian military highway, in order to restore justice and help the poor.