Yaponts Arskievich Abadiyev ( , ; 1906 1985 ) was a Soviet cavalry regiment commander during the Second World War . At the start of the war he was positioned as the deputy commander of a tank regiment , but was soon assigned as the commander of the 126th Cavalry Regiment . He briefly served as commander of the 255th Separate Chechen-Ingush Cavalry Regiment , but soon accepted command of a regiment within the 115th Kabardian-Balkar Cavalry Division . During the war he was injured multiple times , as his division was ordered to confront the 4th Panzer Army despite their cavalrymen being no match for the tanks . Despite his long service in the Red Army , his entire family was deported in the Aardakh , and was sent to Bashkortostan to command a reserve regiment . After the war he was stationed in a variety of cities , but did not get to return to his homeland of Ingushetia until the 1980s
Aardakh
Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush
Yaponts Abadiyev