Aslan (Khalid) Aliyevich Maskhadov (Russian: ????´? (????´?) ???´???? ?????´???; Chechen: ????? ??? ????? ????????, romanized: Aslan Ali-khant Masxadan; 21 September 1951 – 8 March 2005) was a politician who served as the third President of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
He was credited by many with the Chechen victory in the First Chechen War, which allowed for the establishment of the de facto independent Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
Maskhadov was elected President of Chechnya in January 1997.
Following the start of the Second Chechen War in August 1999, he returned to leading the guerrilla resistance against the Russian army.
He was killed in Tolstoy-Yurt, a village in northern Chechnya, in March 2005.