Mairbek Sheripov Explained

Mairbek Sheripov
Native Name:	Майрбек Шерипов
Birth Date:	1905

Mairbek Sheripov (1905 – 7 November 1942) was one of the leaders of Chechen insurgency against the Soviet Union in the 1940s.Mairbek Sheripov was a younger brother of Aslanbek Sheripov, a Bolshevik revolutionary killed in a battle with the Denikinites in 1919. A jurist by profession, he worked for the Soviet government in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR. In 1941, he joined a Chechen insurrection led by Khasan Israilov. He was killed on 7 November 1942 in a Soviet reprisal raid.^{[1] [2]}

Notes and References

1. Moshe Gammer (2006), The Lone Wolf and the Bear, p. 162. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers,
2. John B. Dunlop, Russia confronts Chechnya: roots of a separatist conflict, p. 58. Cambridge University Press,