Znaur Gassiev

Znaur Nikolaevich Gassiev ( "Znauyr Gassity", , ; 17 March 1925 – 6 March 2016) was a South Ossetian politician. He was one of the leaders of the South Ossetian independence movement in the early 1990s. He served as the first President of South Ossetia from 1991 through 1992.
Gassiev died on 6 March 2016 in Tskhinvali. He was aged 90.