Refat Mustafaev

Refat Mustafaev (Crimean Tatar: Refat Şemsedin oğlu Mustafayev, Russian: Рефат Шемсединович Мустафаев; 1911 1984) was a Crimean Tatar communist who served as a regional party secretary and battalion commissar in the underground partisan movement of Crimea during World War II. After the Nazi troops were forced out of Crimea he was still subject to deportation to Kokand in the Surgun, forcing him to live away from him homeland of Crimea for the rest of his life because of his Crimean Tatar nationality. He was an activist for the right of return from the early days of the Crimean Tatar civil rights movement.[1][2][3]

Refat Mustafaev
Native name
Refat Şemsedin oğlu Mustafayev
Born1908 or 1911
Büyük Yanköy, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire
Died1984
Andijan, Uzbek SSR, USSR
Allegiance Soviet Union
Service/branchRed Army
RankCaptain
Battles/warsWorld War II
AwardsMedal "To a Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st class

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