 His parents, Shamil and Zamira Chagaev, are Mishar Tatars from the village of Kalda (located in today's Baryshsky District of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia), who moved to the Uzbek SSR in the 1950s.Chagaev has a sister, Luiza.He is married to Viktoria, an ethnic Armenian, who is also from Andijan.