Isa Akaiev
Ukrainian Crimean Tatar activist and soldier
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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.
Isa Akayev | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Іса Акаєв |
| Born | Nariman Narketovych Bilialov Uzbekistan[1] |
| Allegiance | Ukraine |
| Branch | Main Directorate of Intelligence |
| Rank | Junior sergeant |
| Commands | Krym Battalion |
| Conflicts | |
| Awards | Order of Merit |
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 administration in Crimea.[3]
Awards
- Order of Merit, III class (23 August 2021)[8]