Ablâziz Veliyev (Russian: Аблязиз Велиев, romanized as Ablyaziz Veliev; born 25 October 1939) is a Crimean Tatar writer, poet, academic, and historian.
He has written many books about Crimean Tatar soldiers of the Red Army during World War II, especially ones who were nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union but received a lower award instead.
[2] His father, Veli Mustafayev, was killed in action during World War II when the Nazis sank the ship he was being transported to the front on.
[1] Growing up in exile, he attended school in Kattakurgan of the Uzbek SSR, which he graduated from in 1957.
He worked in many literary positions, and after the fall of the Soviet Union he moved to Crimea; he became a lecturer at the Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University in 2002.