Movlid Visaitov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 13-May-1913
Place of Birth: Lakha Nëvre, Russia
Date of Death: 23-May-1986
Profession: military personnel
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Movlid Visaitov
- Movlid Visaitov (Russian: ?????? ????????? ????????; 13 May 1914–23 May 1986) was a Chechen Red Army colonel and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Visaitov was commander of 255th Separate Chechen–Ingush cavalry regiment during World War II. He was the first Soviet officer to radio-contact, meet, and shake hands with American forces under the command of General Bolling on the Elbe River, which Visaitov later joked about as "we came from Terek river to Elbe river".
- Both Bolling and Visaitov exchanged gifts: Visaitov gave Bolling his horse, and in return Bolling gave Visaitov a Willys MB utility vehicle.
- Visaitov received the Legion of Merit from US President Harry S.
- Truman.
- In 1946 Visaitov refused to participate in the plot to execute the Chechen dissident Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov who lived in Europe.
- He was deported to a prison settlement in the Kyrgyz SSR where many other deported Chechens and Ingush were located since 1944.
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