On 8 February 1945 he was awarded the Order of Glory 2nd class for having personally captured a German officer in the Warsaw offensive after storming an enemy trench . During heavy street fighting in the Battle of Berlin on 1 May 1945 Velilayev took command of his platoon and led an advance , in which they destroyed four machine gun points and killed 18 enemy soldiers . For doing so he was awarded the Order of Glory 1st class at the Kremlin on 15 May 1945 . He was demobilized from the military in January 1948 . Velilayev , having taken on the Slavic name of Leonid , was one of the very few Crimean Tatars who was not deported to Central Asia in the Sürgün . He lived out the remainder of his life in mainland Ukraine , first in Donetsk and later in Antratsyt . He passed away at the age of 81 on 27 December 1997
Sürgün
Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
Leonid Velilayev