Oleg Teziyev
South Ossetian politician
Oleg Dzherikhanovich Teziyev (Russian: Олег Джериханович Тезиев, Iron Ossetic: Тезиты Джериханы фырт Олег, romanized: Tezity Džerixany fyrt Oleg; born 16 January 1948) is a military commander and soldier from the partially recognized Caucasian Republic of South Ossetia serving as the Republic's first prime minister.
Biography
Oleg Teziev was born in North Ossetia, and is a resident of Vladikavkaz. Teziev's father, Dzherikhan Gablaevich Teziev, was a pilot in the Soviet Air Forces during World War II and his mother, Raisa Gazakovna Tezieva née Vanieva was a local teacher. Oleg would be born on January 16, 1948 in the village of Kadgaron, part of the North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Oleg would frequently change schools due to his father's military service, ultimately graduating from gymnasium in Vladikavkaz, afterwards he studied at the North Caucasus Mining and Metallurgical Institute to become an electrical engineer.
Teziev would serve in the Soviet Army starting in 1972, and from 1981 to 1987 he worked in a local factory before starting one of the first cooperatives in Ossetia, SARMAT, and quickly become one of the regions wealthiest businessmen.
Military career
During the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Oleg Teziev formed a people's self defense militia in Tskhinvali. Teziev purchased cars in Russia to be imported into South Ossetia to be transformed into technicals. Teziev's technical convoys would be attacked by both the KGB as well as the local Georgian Police. In one instance a Georgian Self Defense militia in one of the ethnically Georgian villages between Tskhinvali and the Roki Tunnel destroyed one of the technicals killing its two occupants.
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