Suleyman Abusaidovich Kerimov is a Russia-based billionaire, oligarch, and politician of Lezgian origin. Kerimov has close ties to Vladimir Putin's government in Russia, as well as Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen leader.
Suleyman Kerimov
From 2005 to 2015, Suleyman Kerimov owned the superyacht, Ice.
The superyacht Amadea
Kerimov, Mahmoud Abbas, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan opened Moscow's Cathedral Mosque, 23 September 2015.
Lezgins are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group native predominantly to southern Dagestan, a republic of Russia, and northeastern Azerbaijan, and speak the Lezgin language. Their social structure is firmly based on equality and deference to individuality. Lezgin society is structured around djamaat and has traditionally been egalitarian and organised around many autonomous local clans, called syhils (сихилар).
Lezgins
Many Lezgins lived in the Persian-ruled Derbent khanate, which Russia occupied and dissolved in 1813.
Lezgins in the 1860s
An antique Lesghi rug, east Caucasus, c. 1880