Magomet Chotchaev was born in 1908 in the village of Khurzuk. He studied at the North Caucasian Communist University in Rostov-on-Don and the University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow. After his studies, he worked as an instructor in the Uchkulan District Party Committee. After his arrest in 1937 on false charges by the then chairman of the regional executive committee, Kurman-Ali Kurdzhiyev, Magomet Chotchaev was appointed to his place. On December 12, 1937, he became the first Karachai to be a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. A couple of years later, on June 23, 1941, Magomet volunteered for the front. On the fields of the Great Patriotic War, he received a severe wound and underwent treatment in Baku. He was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of the Red Star, and the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class, and other combat medals. He also played an important role in the return of the Karachai people from deportation. In early 1957, he became the secretary of the Mikoyan-Shakharsky District Party Committee and oversaw the eviction of settlers from Georgia from the territory of Karachay and the resettlement of arriving Karachais from Central Asia into their own homes.
In 2008, a memorial plaque was unveiled on the "Alley of Glory" on the central square of Karachayevsk. In May 2013, a presentation of the book "Worthy of Honor," dedicated to Magomet Shauhalovich, was held in the assembly hall of KChGU. And in 2022, a monument was erected on the main street of old Karachayevsk - Mira Street.
Russia, Karachayevsk
