Mahmud Mutievich Amayev (Russian: Махму́д Мути́евич Ама́ев; 1916 – 22 February 1943) was a Chechen sniper in the Red Army during the Second World War, credited with killing an estimated 194 to 253 German soldiers.
In the 1930’s he was the secretary of a local Komsomol group, and later he became a teacher at an elementary school before joining the Red Army in 1940.
[1][2] During the war Amayev fought in the 87th Guards Rifle Regiment, but he did not begin sniper work until June 1942.
In September 1942 he was nominated for the Order of the Red Banner for killing 77 Nazis.
Ilya Ehrenburg wrote a letter to Amayev thanking him for killing 161 Nazis, and he was given a personalized rifle from Tula and the command of his unit gifted him a dagger with the inscription "The enemy cannot extinguish the sun, and we cannot be defeated!".