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Isa Akaiev

Isa Akaiev

Ukrainian Crimean Tatar activist and soldier


Nariman Narketovych Bilialov (Ukrainian: Наріман Наркетович Білялов), better known as Isa Akaiev (Ukrainian: Іса Акаєв),[2] is a Ukrainian Crimean Tatar[3][1][4] civic activist and junior sergeant[4] of the Main Directorate of Intelligence.

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Biography

In 1944, his grandparents and parents were deported from Crimea to Uzbekistan, where he was born and trained as a civil engineer. In the early 1990s, they returned to their family homeland.[1][5]

Akaiev participated in the Euromaidan protests.

In 2014, after the Russian takeover of Crimea, he left the peninsula and volunteered for the Dnipro-1 Battalion. With no combat experience, he founded and led the Krym Battalion, with which he defended Mariupol and participated in the battles for Savur-Mohyla.[1] He was later demobilized. He helped his compatriots in mainland Ukraine. He was engaged in the popularization of Crimean Tatar traditions in Vinnytsia Oblast.[2][6]

Since 2021, he has been the head of the Charitable Foundation "Krymly".[7] Deputy Head of the public organization "Vetan" (Vinnytsia).[8]

With the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, he returned to the front. Participated in the battles for Kyiv Oblast,[9] Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions[1][10] and Bakhmut.[5][1]

On 24 October 2022, he was put on the wanted list by the Russian occupiers in Crimea.[3]

Awards


References

  1. Юлія Рацибарська (1 April 2023). ""Незнайомі люди тиснуть руку, дякують". Як кримський татарин, грузин та білорус воюють за Україну". Радіо Свобода. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  2. Вікторія Веселова (15 March 2022). "Кримчани на війні: інженер, багатодітний батько, розвідник Іса Акаєв". Радіо Свобода. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  3. Валентина Рингель (9 February 2023). "Завдання — повернути Крим". Укріноформ. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  4. Віталій Бондарєв (11 May 2022). "Командиру батальйону "Крим" вручили орден "За заслуги"". Суспільне Новини. Retrieved 21 May 2023.

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