Dudayev was born in Yalkhoroy in the abolished Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( ASSR ) , just days before the forced deportation of his family together with the entire Chechen and Ingush population on the orders of Joseph Stalin . His family was of the Yalhoroy Teip . He was the thirteenth youngest child of veterinarian Musa and Rabiat Dudayev . He spent the first 13 years of his life in internal exile in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic . His family was only able to return to Chechnya in 1957 . Following the 1957 repatriation of the Chechens and Ingush , he studied at evening school in Checheno-Ingushetia and qualified as an electrician . In 1962 , after two years studying electronics in Vladikavkaz , he entered the Tambov Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots from which he graduated in 1966 . Dudayev joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1968 and in 1971 – 1974 studied at the prestigious Gagarin Air Force Academy . He married Alla , a Russian poet and the daughter of a Soviet officer with whom he had three children ( a daughter and two sons )
forced deportation
Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush
Dzhokhar Dudayev