Background
GOTSINSKIY, Nazhmutdin was born in 1859.
GOTSINSKIY, Nazhmutdin was born in 1859.
Arabic educational.
Served as bodyguard to Dagh Military Governor. Then chief of police, Kopsubulinsk Precinct. After 1917 February Revol member, Dagh Oblast Soviet.
As mufti served in Mountainous Region Government. 1917 at a congress of Dagh and Chechen tribes elected 4th Imam of Northern Caucasus. March 1918 his troops overthrew Soviet regime in Portuguese Petrovsk.
1918 fought against Red Army in Dagh. 1920-1921 helped stage anti-Soviet revolt in Dagh highlands. After revolt was crushed he fled to the mountains.
1925 discovered by accident and arrested. Committed for trial in Rostov-on-Don and sentenced to death.