[1] Dalkhan Khozhaev was born on 18 April 1961 in Grozny into the Chechen teip of Benoy.

Dalkhan's father Abdul-Aziz Khozhaev was a commercial worker and his mother Zura Bibulatova was a Chechen and Russian language teacher.

Between 1985 - 1991, he was a methodologist of the station of young tourists, as well as a researcher at the Chechen-Ingush Republican Regional Museum.

Since 1994 he was a member of the Cabinet of Ministers and as well as the State Defense Council of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

The federal forces believed that Arbi Barayev, a longtime enemy of Ruslan Gelayev, was involved in the killing.