Nurly Miniakhmetovich Miniakhmetov (Tatar: Нурлый Миңнәхмәтов; 15 June 1914 – 9 September 1989) was a Red Army soldier during World War II and a Hero of the Soviet Union.

Miniakhmetov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin for his actions during the Battle of the Dnieper, in which he ferried troops across the river while under fire.

Nurly Miniakhmetovich Miniakhmetov was born in a Tatar peasant family on 15 June 1914 in the village of Askish, Birsky Uyezd, Ufa Governorate (now in Karaidelsky District, Bashkortostan).

Miniakhmetov was conscripted into the Red Army in August 1936, serving with the 73rd Separate Railway Construction Battalion at Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, аnd was discharged at the end of his mandatory service in October 1938.

Miniakhmetov survived the sinking of a troop-carrying barge on the Volga by swimming to shore and was wounded a second time in the street fighting on 12 October by grenade fragments.

[9] Reaching the Desna, elements of the division conducted an assault crossing of the river near the village of Sobych, Shostka Raion, Sumy Oblast on 12 September.

[10] Making 35 trips in a rubber boat across the Desna to the Soviet bridgehead on the German-occupied west bank while under fire, he ferried 370 soldiers with their weapons, seven guns and 11 carts of ammunition.

Guards Junior Sergeant Miniakhmetov, under harsh conditions, at the risk of his [own] life, carried out the orders of the command, ensured the timely transfer of our troops through the water barrier of the Desna river.