[1] Buryatsky had been identified in YouTube videos, wearing camouflage while preaching radical Islam with an assault rifle.

[1] Buryatsky, whose birth name was Alexander Alexandrovitch Tikhomirov,[2] was born February 10, 1982, in Ulan-Ude, the capital of Buryatia.

[5] Buryatsky was reportedly responsible for the reactivation of the Riyadus-Salikhin shahid brigade of suicide bombers originally formed by Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev.

[4] 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.

[5] A spokesman said that FSB troops had found a bomb factory inside the same house where the militants had been cornered in Ingushetia.