Movlid Visaitov (Russian: Мавлид Алероевич Висаитов; 13 May 1914 – 23 May 1986) was a Chechen Red Army colonel and a Hero of the Soviet Union.

In 1946 Visaitov refused to participate in the plot to execute the Chechen dissident Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov who lived in Europe.

[2] Not long after the launch of Operation Barbarossa Visaitov first saw combat against German forces in June 1941 as a squadron commander in the 34th Cavalry Regiment on the Southwestern Front.

On 19 September 1941 while the division was encircled near the city of Boryspil, Visaitov took command of over 200 men and managed to reunite them with troops in Donbas.

[1] As the regiment was being dissolved, in October 1942 Visaitov was placed in command of one of the separate reconnaissance battalions, and remained in that position until January 1943, after which he was placed in charge of cavalry courses which trained junior lieutenants of the Southern Front.

[2] Visaitov was nearly executed at the warfront after he physically attacked General Oslikovsky who publicly shamed him front of his colleagues because of his ethnicity.

During the Berlin operation his regiment was paired with tank and artillery units, and they broke through enemy lines in Schwedt on 27 April.

On 2 May they reached the Elbe river, where Visaitov greeted American troops,[3] and he was soon nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union.