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She was born in 1953 in an exile in Khazachstan, where Stalin ordered to deport whole nation of Chechnya in 1944. When permitting to return back, the family of Zainap settled down in Groznyj, where Zainap worked as a director of a corporation. Later she moved to Moscow. In the time of the first war in Chechnya in 1994 Zainap returned to Groznyj starting to cooperate with the Western journalists and activists. She founded the Chechnya women organization “The Women of the North Caucasus”, now known as “Echo of War” organizing peace operations and congresses against the war in Chechnya and raising international public awareness about this issue.
Zainap Gashaeva made the biggest archive of films and photographs about the two wars in Chechnya, which is now being processed in Switzerland. In collaboration with several European organizations, she helps to subsidize the Chechen orphans. Zainap has won 3 awards in Germany and Switzerland. She will be honored with the 2005 Lew Kopelew Prize for Peace and Human Rights. The award will be bestowed in Cologne, Germany, on November 20, 2005. Zainap is the main protagonist of Eric Bergkraut’s film COCA - The Dove from Chechnya, which presents the work and endeavor of her and her companions.
