 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Iye akazvarwa mukutapwa nekuda kweKudzingwa kwevaChechen nemaIngush, mudunhu reChuy, Kyrgyzstan, kupinda muYalkhoi teip dzinza kubva mumusha weGeldagan mudunhu reShalinsky reChechnya. Akasvika muMoscow muna 1974 ndokupinda muMoscow State University, Faculty of Law. Pamwe naSaid-Khasan Abumuslimov akazove Mutevedzeri weMutungamiri weChechnya pasi paZelimkhan Yandarbiyev akaronga komiti yepasi pevhu yekusunungurwa kweChechnya inonzi Obshina. Dare racho rakadzidza mabhuku aAbdurakhman Avtorkhanov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, naAndrei Sakharov. Sekureva kwaNoukhaev, Abumuslimov aive nebasa rezvematongerwo enyika neruzivo apo iye aibata nenyaya dzemari nezvombo. Muna 1980 Nukhaev akatongerwa makore masere nokuda kwokupamba, uko akataura kuti kwakanga kuri chaizvoizvo nokuda kwezvikonzero zvematongerwe enyika. Munguva iyi akawana zita remadunhurirwa rekuti Khozha uye aionekwa semukuru wemafia eChechen pamwe naNikolay Suleimanov. Pakazosvika 1987 matsotsi echiChechen akanga avandudzwa kuva sangano rakarongeka zvakanaka pasi paNukhayev naSuleimanov, boka racho rakaedza kumanikidza mapoka emaMafia eRussia ane simba zvikuru Lyubertsy, Solntsevo, uye Balashikha kubva kuMoscow iyo yakabvumira vaChechen kuti vatore chinzvimbo chinotonga kwenguva yakati. 