Magomedali Magomedov


Magomedali Magomedovich Magomedov was chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Dagestan from 1987 to 2006.

Biography

He was born on 15 June 1930, in Levashi, Levashinsky district, Republic of Dagestan.
He graduated from the Dagestan Teachers Institute in 1952, and in 1968 from the Dagestan Institute of Agriculture.
He became chairman of the Council of State in 1987 under the Soviet system, and was one of the few leaders to keep his post in the post-Soviet Russian Federation. On 26 July 1994, he was elected Chairman of the State Council of Dagestan.
On 26 June 1998, he was re-elected to the same post, and on 25 June 2002, again for the third time.
He resigned on 19 February 2006, for unclear reasons, and was replaced two days later by Mukhu Aliyev. He is married and he has six children. He is also the father of Magomedsalam Magomedov, who served as president of Dagestan from 2010 to 2013.

Honours and awards

Magomedali Magomedov's major achievement was balanced politics that helped to keep Dagestan away from major social and religious conflicts. He managed to smooth all conflicting positions and reach compromise for different ethnic groups in Dagestan. He was also famous for modernization initiatives. The major criticism of Magomedali was related to ongoing corruption in his office.