Akhmar Zavgayev was born on 20 December 1947 at the Nurinskaya station in the
Tokarevka settlement of the of the
Karaganda Region of the
Kazakh SSR. From 1965 to 1971, he worked as a tractor driver, foreman of the tractor-field farming brigade. From 1971 to 1974 he was the chairman of the working committee of a state farm. In 1973, he graduated from the
Sernovodsk Agricultural College. From 1974 to 1980 he was the chief engineer of a state farm. In 1979, he graduated from the in
Grozny. In 1980, he was the director of the state farm. From 1995 to 1996, Zavgayev was the Deputy General Director of the Customs Service Center of the Association for Foreign Economic Cooperation of the Republic of
Bashkortostan. From 1996 to 1997, he was an assistant to a member of the
Federation Council. From 1997 to 1999, he was the General Director of CJSC Atomagroservice. On 24 October 2000, Zavgayev became a representative in the Federation Council from the executive authority of the Chechen Republic, and was the deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Economic Policy, Entrepreneurship and Property. On 7 December 2003, Zavgayev was elected to the State Duma of the
fourth convocation from the
Chechnya constituency N 32 (Chechen Republic). In December 2007, he was reelected as a member of the State Duma of the
fifth convocation, and was elected as part of the federal list of candidates put forward by the United Russia party. He was a member of the Budget and Tax Committee. ==Political beliefs==