Umer Aqmolla Adamanov (, , ; 15 April 1916, Ai-Vasil', Derekoe parish, Yaltinsky Uyezd, Taurida Governorate, Russian empire — 1 June 1943, Gmina Józefów, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, Nazi Germany) was a Crimean Tatar soldier Red Army who became a partisan detachment leader in the Polish resistance during World War II. After he was wounded in battle and taken prisoner by the Germans he was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, but he later escaped from the camp and helped organize a partisan detachment of the communist underground Gwardia Ludowa. Early life Adamanov was born in 1916 to a Crimean Tatar peasant family in the village of Vasilyevka, Crimea. His father was declared a kulak in 1929 and deported to the Urals, where he soon died of typhus. After the loss of his father his mother was left to raise Umer and his younger sister Khadija by herself. Umer went on to work at a state farm. Upon the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 Adamanov was drafted into the Red Army and forced to leave his wife Vera and infant son Shevket. World War II Red Army service While in the Red Army he served in the 97th Rifle Regiment of the 18th Rifle Division. During the fighting in Orsha in winter 1941 he was wounded in battle and taken captive by the Germans, after which he was sent to a POW camp in Czestochowa, Poland. Partisan activities When he escaped the camp in 1942 he helped organize a partisan detachment with the support of Major-General Sergey Ogurtsov and Vasily "the Georgian" Mandzhavidze. Starting in the middle of summer 1942, the detachment took on the name Grigory Kotovsky in honor of the Soviet General and began operations in Puszcza Solska under the commander of Ogurtsov. After Ogurstov was killed in action during fighting in the village of Zielone, Adamonov took command of the detachment, which soon became part of the Tadeusz Kościuszko Task force of the Gwardia Ludowa. His role as a partisan earned him the nickname "Miszka Tatar", which later became legend in the Polish Workers Party. In the Spring of 1943 the Nazis forces in Poland offered a reward of 100,000 zlotys for the capture or death of Adamanov. From March to June 1943, the detachment led by Adamanov conducted a multiple successful sabotage missions, resulting in the destruction of 12 tanks and 2