Leonid (Nasibulla) Abibulaevich Velilayev (Russian: Леонид (Насибулла) Абибулаевич Велиляев, Crimean Tatar: Nasibulla Abibulla oğlu Velilâyev/Насибулла Абибулла огълу Велиляев; 15 May 1916 – 27 December 1997) was a Crimean Tatar soldier in the Red Army who was awarded the Order of Glory 1st class for bravery in World War II.

After completing seven grades of school in 1928 he had an apprenticeship at a factory and later worked at a metallurgical plant in Kerch until entering the Red Army in 1937; he was soon deployed to fight in the Soviet-Finnish war.

He was later awarded the Medal for Courage for leading a successful attack on the western bank of the Vistula river that eliminated 20 enemy soldiers.

[1][2][3] On 8 February 1945 he was awarded the Order of Glory 2nd class for having personally captured a German general in the Warsaw offensive after storming an enemy trench.

During heavy street fighting in the Battle of Berlin on 1 May 1945 Velilayev took command of his platoon and led an advance, in which they destroyed four machine gun points and killed 18 enemy soldiers.