Degi Imranovich Bagayev (Russian: Деги Имранович Багаев; May 27, 1942 – May 25, 2015) was an honored trainer of the USSR and the first of the Chechens to have received this high rank.
Serious sport, freestyle wrestling, began for Bagayev with 15 years in Kazakhstan, where he stayed with his family during the deportation of the Chechens and Ingush.
In the 1960s he was a medalist for Russia, the master of sports and into the national team of the Kazakh Republic.
The national team of Chechen-Ingushetia, whose coach was D. Bagaev, achieved outstanding results in the Games of the Peoples of the USSR in 1979.
Now Bagayev a senior manager of one of the sports schools of the Russian capital.