Memet Molochnikov

He was drafted into the Red Army in 1941 and originally worked in the military tribunal of the 48th Cavalry Division.^[2] After the division became surrounded during a Nazi military offensive he switched to working in the partisan military tribunal system.^[2] From 10 October 1942 to 5 January 1943 he was the secretary of the Military Tribunal of the Crimean Partisan Detachments in Qarasubazar.^[3] The tribunal handled a wide range of types of cases.^[4] After the Crimean Partisan groups were reorganized, he served as a partisan, commanding a sabotage group.^[5] While functioning as a partisan in Crimea, he personally participated in military combat operations, personally killing two Nazis as well as helping destroy vehicles.^[6][7]

He was born to a Crimean Tatar family on 30 December 1912 in Bakhchisarai.^[5][2] Before the war he worked at the Supreme Court of the Crimean ASSR.^[8] After the war he worked at the Krasny Dvigatel Plant in Samarkand.^[9] In 1968 he became one of the signatories of the very unpopular Letter of Seventeen that encouraged other Crimean Tatars to give up on their dreams of returning to Crimea.^[10] He died in Samarkand on 19 January 2003.^[5]

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