Akhmad ( or Akhmat ) Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov was born in Karaganda in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic on 23 August 1951 to a Chechen family that had been expelled from Chechnya during the Stalinist repressions . In April 1957 , his family returned to Shalinsky District of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR . In 1980 , he started studying Islam at Mir-i Arab Madrasah in Bukhara , and followed by studying at Islamic University in Tashkent , Uzbekistan , from 1982 to 1986 . In the early 1990s , he returned to Chechnya , and founded the Islam Institute in the village of Kurchaloy
Stalinist repressions
Great Purge
Akhmad Kadyrov