Rather, Bulgarov began heading off to the mosque with supporters of a devout strain of Islam, and, as per a nearby relative and Egyptian security sources, went to Cairo a year ago to study Arabic.
Turkish state media have recognized Bulgarov, 23, as one of the suspected suicide aircraft who assaulted Istanbul's Ataturk air terminal on June 29, executing 45 individuals and injuring hundreds.
A few of the aggressors were from Russia or ex-Soviet nations, making it the deadliest remote assault by activists from that locale since the Boston marathon bombarding in 2013, did by two youthful ethnic Chechen siblings.
In the space of two years, Bulgarov transformed from a bashful young fellow who drove a mainstream way of life to a suspected jihadist plane, as per Reuters interviews with his educator, an imam, a cohort and the nearby relative.
His case demonstrates the difficulties that Russian security offices face distinguishing potential security dangers out of the a great many youngsters in Russia who are swinging to ultra-preservationist types of Islam.
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| Local residents attend a prayer at the cemetery in the village of Ikon-Khalk in Dagestan, Russia, July 5, 2016. Picture taken July 5, 2016. |
EGYPTIAN STAY
Three Egyptian security sources told Reuters Bulgarov burned through 7 months and 12 days in Cairo, leaving in January this year, and that he agreed to Arabic classes at Al-Azhar University, an Islamic focal point of learning.
"He lived in a level with another youthful Russian man in the Ain Shams zone," said one of the sources, alluding to a suburb of Cairo.
Bulgarov was not on the radar of Egyptian security administrations until Russian powers reached them around a week back looking for data on him and some other Russians he blended with in Cairo, said the same source.
Bulgarov left Egypt on Jan. 13 for Turkey, as indicated by the three Egyptian sources.
Some time after that, he came back to Russia and was met by the Federal Security Service (FSB), which is in charge of counter-terrorism, and needed to experience an untruth identifier test, as indicated by the relative, who did not have any desire to be distinguished.
The relative said Bulgarov was then permitted to go home.
"He breezed through the test, he was fine," said the relative.
Reuters couldn't affirm that the meeting, a standard strategy in Russia that does not as a matter of course mean the powers thought he was a security risk, occurred. Neighborhood police and the FSB did not react to demands for input.
Happy with UPBRINGING
Bulgarov experienced childhood in Karachaevo-Cherkessia, a Russian locale on the northern slants of the North Caucasus mountains where numerous individuals are Muslim.
Yet, dissimilar to different parts of the North Caucasus, for example, close-by Chechnya and Ingushetia, there was no solid custom of hardline Islamism or defiance to Moscow's principle.
Bulgarov's family home is in the town of Ikon-Khalk, a settlement of the Nogai individuals, a Turkic ethnic gathering.
His childhood was agreeable. His dad is a tractor driver. His grandma claims a shop store in the town which, among different things, offers sustenance cooked by his mom.
Putting Bulgarov through school to get his tourism certificate would have taken a toll his family about $3,000, as per Mardjan Dagujieva, the executive of the school, a significant aggregate by neighborhood models.
At the school, Bulgarov was bashful.
"When he set out to say a word in class, that was at that point a stun for us," said Yevgeny Romanenko, a cohort.
He said Bulgarov around then smoked cigarettes and drank liquor - both propensities which are prohibited by translations of Islam.
His instructor at the school, Gor Kurginyan, said Bulgarov was one of his best understudies with a fantasy to begin a little business.
"He wanted to dispatch an auto repair shop along a street in his neighborhood," said Kurginyan.
Bulgarov moved on from the school in 2011, and his instructor anticipated that him would either seek after the workshop plan or continue concentrate, perhaps at college in the adjacent city of Pyatigorsk.
In any case, when Kurginyan got together with some of his ex-understudies around two years back, he heard the unforeseen news that Bulgarov had given his life to Islam.
"I asked the folks: 'And how is Rahim?'" said Kurginyan. "They let me know he had ... swung to Islam."
Enlisted people TO MOSQUE
After Bulgarov moved on from school, he had been chipping away at a ranch and in development in his Ikon-Khalk, as per his nearby relative.
Be that as it may, the town was evolving. In 2013 or 2014, youthful nearby men began going to the mosque toward the end of his road, attracted to rehearsing Islam without precedent for their lives, and specifically to an exceptionally strict elucidations of the confidence.
This mirrors a pattern all through the North Caucasus. As indicated by a report this year by the International Crisis Group, destitution, defilement and police crackdowns in the district have left numerous youngsters feeling irate and aggrieved.
Some of them have been attracted to radical types of Islam which they feel offers an approach to address shameful acts.
"More individuals began going to mosque," said the imam at the mosque in Bulgarov's town, Abdulla Kumykov. "It had been not very many, around 10 individuals at Friday supplication. Furthermore, now it's 40-50, (taking up) about portion of the petition room."
At the point when a Reuters correspondent went to a week ago, a few men in their 20s and 30s stayed nearby the mosque. They declined to talk with the female correspondent, and demanded she didn't cross into the mosque's yard, saying ladies were not permitted in.
The imam, who couldn't clarify why there had been a flood of new admirers, addressed the correspondent outside the edge of the mosque.
He said Bulgarov had first gone to the mosque around year and a half prior, and had implored there routinely until he cleared out for Egypt.
The nearby relative said Bulgarov left home for a brief moment time in March this year, telling his family that he was flying out to look for some kind of employment in Labytnangi, a Russian mining settlement close to the Arctic Circle.
Whenever the relative knew of his whereabouts was the point at which they learned he was a suspect in the Istanbul airplane terminal bombarding.
(Extra reporting by Lin Noueihed and Ahmed Mohammed Hassan in CAIRO and David Dolan in ISTANBUL; Editing by Christian Lowe and Anna Willard)
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