Degi Imranovich Bagayev (Russian: Деги Имранович Багаев, born May 27, 1942 in Kharsenoy, Chechen–Ingush ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is an honored trainer of the USSR and the first of the Chechens to have received this high rank.Serious sport, freestyle wrestling, began for Bagayev with 15 years in Kazakhstan, where he stayed with his family during the deportation. In the 1960s he was a medalist for Russia, the master of sports and into the national team of the Kazakh Republic.