Background
Umakhanov, Magomed-Salam was born in 1918.
Umakhanov, Magomed-Salam was born in 1918.
Graduated from the Higher Party School of the Central.
Served in the Soviet Army, 1939-1948. Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1952. High party positions in Daghestan including Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Daghestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1956-1967.
A Brezhnevite, he was sent into retirement by Andropov after Brezhnev’s death.