Gabdulkhay Khuramovich Akhatov (Russian: Габдулха́й Хура́мович Аха́тов; Volga Tatar: Габделхәй Хурам улы Əхәтов; September 8, 1927 – November 25, 1986) was a Soviet Tatar Linguist, Turkologist and an organizer of science (earning his first Ph.D in 1954) and then a second doctorate of Philology in 1965,[1] attaining professorship in 1970.

[6] Akhatov, for the first time in Turkic studies, gave a theoretically consistent and systematic description of the idiomatic expressions of the Volga Tatar language.

[7] For more than 30 years, Professor Akhatov headed the department of Tatar philology at various universities and institutes in Russia.

[11][12] A number of his scientific works were highly praised at the XIII International Congress of Linguists (ICL) (Tokyo, 1982).

His son Aydar Akhatov (born 20 June 1957) is a Russian state, political and public figure, Economist, a second doctorate in Economics, Ecologist and Lawyer.