He returned to Chechnya and would graduate from a secondary school in the Chechen capital Grozny.
In August 1996, he led a successful operation to retake the Chechen capital Grozny, defeating the Russian garrison of the city.
The town is located in the central part of the republic, to the southwest of the capital Grozny.
Urban areas (including civil buildings in the capital Grozny), villages, roads, fields, woods, mountain paths, bridges and rivers were mined.
He was born in the Chechen capital Grozny during the Soviet era.
In 2003, the United Nations described the Chechen capital Grozny as the most destroyed city in the world.
He spent his childhood in the ethnic Russian community of the Chechen-Ingush Republic's capital Grozny.
He graduated from the construction faculty of the Oil Institute in the Chechen capital Grozny with a higher education degree as a construction engineer.
Zviad Gamsakhurdia's remains were re-buried in the Chechen capital Grozny on February 24, 1994.
On 12 October 1999, the Russian forces crossed the Terek and began a two-pronged advance on the capital Grozny to the south.