Abadiyev was born over a decade before the October Revolution in the Ingush village of Nasyr-Kort . Having been born during the Russo-Japanese War , he was named " Yaponts " , ( meaning Japanese ) due to the Ingush tradition of sometimes naming children with the ethnonyms of the peoples they fought in battle . After entering the Red Army in 1924 he was sent to cavalry school , where cadets participated in the liquidation of the kulaks . In 1930 he graduated from cavalry school and was stationed in the city of Vladikavkaz as a squadron commander . That year he was presented with an engraved Gewehr 98 , after recommendation of the commander of the 28th Rifle Division , A. D. Kazitsky . He became a member of the Communist Party in 1938 , in March 1939 he was appointed as the Chief of Staff of the 39th Cavalry Regiment , and in 1940 he was promoted to the position of deputy commander of the 107th Cossack Cavalry Regiment based in Armavir . In the early days of Operation Barbarossa , Abadiyev was on the front lines of the Second World War . Initially he was deputy commander of the 117th Heavy Tank Regiment based in Smolensk , which was subjected to heavy bombardments . He went on to command the 126th Cavalry Regiment of the 28th Cavalry Division in Pavlohrad . On 16 August 1941 , General Rodion Malinovsky the commander of the 6th Army , tasked Abadiyev with leading an attack to push back enemy forces in the region of Sursk-Litovsk towards the Dnieper . On August 19 , his regiment was the first in the region to begin the attack . The cavalrymen destroyed two enemy companies and completely expelled enemy forces from the village . From August 20 to 23 , Abadiyev managed to organize the repulsion of a tank offensive . The regiment assumed the main fire , and thus ensured the safe exit of the division from the battlefield , ensuring the success of the operation . In October 1941 , he sustained a head injury but continued to remain in command of his regiment . On 5 November 1941 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for success in combat . In March 1942 he was appointed as the commander of the newly formed 255th Separate Chechen-Ingush Cavalry Regiment , but soon accepted a new position and was replaced by his chief of staff Movlid Visaitov in May . Abadiyev was briefly in command of the 297th Cavalry Regiment of the 115th Kabardian-Balkar Cavalry Division before he was sent to command the 278th Cavalry Regiment in July , which was within the same division . In July 1942 German troops broke through the southern part of the front , which resulted in the division engaging in defensive operations in the North Caucasus , Stalingrad , and in the heavy fighting between the Don and Volga rivers . Earlier that year in June the division had received orders to fight off the 4th German Tank Army near the village of Konstantinovsk ; in the following defensive operation , the division would lost more than half of its personnel . On the evening of July 29 , the division took their positions for a counterattack , but the German tanks attacked first , destroying the headquarters of Major-General Boris Pogrebov before the 115th division could launch their offensive . Nevertheless , Abadiyev and his cavalrymen fought to their last , and the German who troops broke through the defensive line did so in Tsimlyansk area , which was junctioned between the 91st and 157th Rifle Divisions . It was noted by the command of the 51st Army that the regimental commanders of the 115th Division acted bravely and showed resilience . During one engagement in the summer of 1942 , Abadiyev was seriously wounded and nearly killed , but his horse saved his life and carried him off the battlefield under heavy enemy fire . The 115th Division was disbanded in October 1942 while Abadiyev was in the hospital , after having lost over two-thirds of its personnel ; the survivors of unit were sent to anti-tank and reconnaissance units . After recovering from his injuries he attended the Frunze Military Academy and briefly taught at the Arzamas Higher Officer Staff School before being redeployed to the warfront . He participated in the Battle of Stalingrad and the fighting at the Khopyor River . For his actions in repelling attacks from German tanks he was nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union by Konstantin Rokossovsky , but he did not receive the title . On 23 February 1944 his family was deported along with the entire Ingush civilian population ; the Soviet government had labeled Vainakh peoples as " traitors to the motherland " and ordered the mass relocation of them to prison settlements in Central Asia . Yaponts Abadiyev was recalled from the front , but not immediately sent to a " special settlement " and was instead allowed to command a reserve regiment in Orenburg and then serve as deputy commander of the 28th Reserve Regiment in Bashkortostan . When the war officially ended he was stationed in Gorky as a battalion commander . After the war he was assigned to command construction battalions in Vladimir , Ryazan , Moscow , Berezniki , and Kuibyshev , before returning to Ingushetia in the early 1980s . He retired from the military in the 1950s with the rank of lieutenant-colonel . After his death in 1985 he was posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin , the medal of which was presented to his living relatives . There are memorial plaques bearing his name in Volgograd in a museum and Mamayev Kurgan
liquidation of the kulaks
Dekulakization
Yaponts Abadiyev