Mamadali Topivoldiyev[a] (20 September 1919 – 6 May 1969) was a Soviet soldier who became commander of the reconnaissance unit of the 5th detachment of the Chekist Partisan Brigade of the Belorussian resistance.

For his partisan activities he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 15 August 1944, and the Nazis offered a reward of 50,000 Reichsmarks for his capture.

Topivoldiyev was born on 20 September 1919[b] to an Uzbek peasant family[1] in the village of Pandigan, located in what is now the Rishton District of present-day Uzbekistan.

When he was drafted into the Red Army in 1939 and stationed in Babruysk as a driver in the 130th Artillery Regiment, he knew no Russian,[2] but by 1941 he had developed a limited understanding of the language, which improved over time.

He then banded up with thirteen soldiers who were scattered amongst local villages, and then they joined the partisan detachment led by Gerasim Kirpich.

[5][8] The detachment was very diverse, containing people of numerous ethnicities including Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Mordvin, Jewish, Kumyk, Ossetian, Chuvash, Udmurt, Kazakh, and Uzbek.

Their operations included missions on 27 September 1943 he and Kayanov killed three enemy soldiers and wounded seven others in near Sviryana village, and when on 12 October 1943 they fire to German barracks.

Lydia, who successfully evaded imprisonment, afterward affiliated herself with another group and, with their assistance, arrived in the urban center of Petropavl in Kazakhstan.

[5][4] The individual in question had a total of eight children, namely Mubarakkhan (1946-2010), Ahmadali (1949-2009), Hamidjon (1956-2009), Mavludakhon (1959), Hasanboy (1962), Matlubakhon (1962), Farhodjon (1963), and Kahramon (1965).

[24] Topivoldiyev’s life was the inspiration for plot of the movie Unforgotten song (Russian: Незабытая песня; the Uzbek language version of the film was titled Kazbek).

[2][25] He was also the subject of the 2003 documentary Son of Two Nations (Russian: Сын двух народов directed by Mukim Yuldashev,[26] the 2019 documentary They Liberated Belarus (Russian: Они освобождали Беларусь,[27] an episode titled Partisan Mamadali Topvoldiyev (Uzbek: Partizan Mamadali Topvoldiyev) of the film series Unforgettable Heroes in 2021.