Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev was a terrorist of Chechen and Avar descent. He and his younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, committed the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013.
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| Subject | Tamerlan Tsarnaev |
| Category | Chechen perpetrator of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing (1986–2013) |
| Reading time | 1 min · Intermediate |
| Key date | 2013 |
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