Kazbek Butaev — a relative of Renat Besolov on the Butaev line, an economist and statesman
A Soviet economist and statesman: People's Commissar of the Mountain ASSR, professor and director of the Institute of Red Professors in Moscow, and first secretary of the North Ossetian regional committee. Uncle of the physicist Fatima Butaeva.
From the revolutionary committee to the Institute of Red Professors
Kazbek Savvich Butaev was born on 4 December 1893 in the village of Salugardan, North Ossetia, into a peasant family. A Communist Party member from 1918, he took part in the struggle for Soviet power in the North Caucasus as deputy chairman of the People's Council of the Terek Republic, commissar of a partisan division, and chairman of the revolutionary committee.
In 1920-1925 he was secretary of the regional committee and People's Commissar of the Mountain ASSR. In 1925-1929 he studied at the Institute of Red Professors. From 1929 he worked as deputy chief editor of the newspaper Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn.
In 1931-1934 he was deputy director of the Institute of Economics of the Communist Academy, professor and director of the Institute of Red Professors in Moscow, and editor of the journals Problems of Economics and IKP.
In 1934-1936 he was first secretary of the North Ossetian regional committee, a delegate to party congresses, and a member of the VTsIK and the TsIK of the USSR.
Butaev's works dealt with the land question, the economic development of Ossetia and the North Caucasus, and the theory of commodity production. In 1937 he was arrested and shot; he was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956. A street in Vladikavkaz and School No. 24 are named after him. Kazbek Butaev was the uncle of the physicist Fatima Butaeva.
The Butaev family — maternal line
Kazbek Butaev was of the Ossetian Butaev family. Renat Besolov's great-great-grandmother, Varika Butaeva, came from the same family. Kazbek Butaev's biography is confirmed; the degrees of kinship are given per family records.