Khavazi Muhamed-Mirzaev (Russian: Хаваджи Мухамед-Мирзаев; 1910 – 4 October 1943) was a Chechen cavalry soldier during World War II who was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 15 January 1944.
In the early 1930s, after being drafted into the Army he was deployed in the Russian Far East as part of the Border Guards Service of the NKVD.
[1] After Germany invaded the Soviet Union with the launch of Operation Barbarossa in 1941, Muhamed-Mirzaev was again drafted into the ranks of the Red Army.
[2][3] While approaching the Mensky settlement of Chernigov on 18 September, Muhamed-Mirzaev picked put his machine gun and led his regiment in an attack.
[4] His name is written on a memorial plaque in Bashkortostan among the 78 Heroes of the Soviet Union from the 60th Guards Chernigov Cavalry Regiment.