Akhmetkhan Gubaidulin

General Akhmetkhan Ilkhanovich Gubaidulin is a Uralican politician and military leader, outranked only by Jarkko Salomäki within the Uralican Army, since his promotion to General in June 2010 (aside Kirill Zholtok). He is TOOL's most prominent ethnic Bashkir, and votes within the Chuvash Tribe. His wife, Tursanay Gubaidulina, is the Dean of Humanities at Uralikan Yliopisto and teaches Turkic and Central Asian Studies at the Main Campus in Syktyvkar.

Biography
Although Bashkir, Akhmetkhan was born to Ilkhan Gubaidulin and Fatma Gubaidulina in Chernushka, which is just outside the boundaries of Bashkortostan. He had a tough life growing up in the Russian-dominated town, as even in the supposedly "all are equal" communist society, racism was an issue. Still, his hard-working father, who was a factory worker, instilled in him a solid work ethic that kept him going through his entire scholastic tenure.

Graduating from high school in 1984 just shy of his 18th birthday, he realised that all was not well in the Union, with leaders seeming to be dropping like flies. Taking a year off of school, he went and worked with his father in an iron-smelting plant. But the ascension of Gorbachev to power and the policy of glasnost that followed piqued his curiosity, so he went back to school to study military history. Naturally, he went to Bashkir State University in Ufa, because of the fact that it was the nearest major option to him. He received his Bachelor of Arts in the summer of 1989.

However, before he could start his Magister Degree (the equivalent of a Master's), he was called up for military service. He was actually active in the 1991 coup attempt in Moscow, but due to personal principles (having been raised Russian Orthodox), he joined several Red Army defectors in defending the White House in Moscow. He was grazed by a bullet in the left bicep but only suffered a minor burn as a result.