Rizvan Akhmadov was born on 6 September 1957 in the Taldykorgan region of Kazakhstan, where his parents were deported by the Soviet regime.

[1][2] [3] During the First Chechen War, he was severely wounded in the Urus-Martanovsky District of Chechnya and survived thanks to his brother Ramzan Akhmadov, who brought him out of the encirclement of Russian troops.

[5] On June 27, 2002, while on his way to meet with President Aslan Maskhadov, Rizvan Akhmadov stopped for a rest in the Shalinsky District.

As he was leaving the house, pro-Russian Chechen forces sitting in ambush at the gate opened fire.

Rizvan Akhmadov was badly wounded, but he shot back as long as he could, took a grenade and pulled the pin to avoid being captured.