Dr. Mustafa Azret-Aliyevich Batdyyev (Russian: Мустафа Азрет-Алиевич Батдыев; Karachay-Balkar: Батдыланы Азрет-Алийни джашы Мустафа) (born December 24, 1950) is a Russian politician of Karachay ethnicity, who was the second president of Karachay–Cherkessia, serving from 2003 to 2008.

[1] Mustafa Batdyyev finished a boarding school in Cherkessk and served in the Soviet Army from 1970 to 1972.

After his studies, Batdyyev returned to Karachay–Cherkessia where from 1981 to 1986 he worked as an economist in the "Rodina" kolkhoz.

[1] In 1997 Batdyyev was appointed as a chairman of the National Bank of Karachay–Cherkessia which was recognized as the best in Russian Federation.

On August 31, 2003, Batdyyev defeated the first president of Karachay–Cherkessia, Vladimir Magomedovich Semenov, in the presidential elections.