Career
Buryatsky had been among the most-wanted men in Russia, and he was considered an ideologue leader of the Islamist rebels in Chechnya and southern Russia. He was known in the region as a Russian counterpart of Osama bin Laden. Buryatsky, whose birth name was Alexander Alexandrovitch Tikhomirov, was born February 10, 1982 in Ulan-Ude, the capital of Buryatia.
Buryatsky moved to the North Caucasus in late 2007 or early 2008, where he became an important ideologue of the Caucasus Emirate.
Buryatsky was reportedly responsible for the reactivation of the Riyadus-Salikhin shahid brigade of suicide bombers originally formed by Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev. He was being investigated for involvement with the 2009 Nevsky Express bombing, leaving 28 dead and 90 wounded.
However, he was never brought to trial. On March 2, 2010, Buryatsky was killed in the village of Ekazhevo in Ingushetia (Russia), during a Russian military operation involving units of the Federal Security Service (Financial Stability Board) and the Russian Interior Ministry.
A spokesman said that Financial Stability Board troops had found a bomb factory inside the same house where the militants had been cornered in Ingushetia.
