Movlid Visaitov

Movlid Aleroevich Visaitov
Native name	Мавлид Алероевич Висаитов
Born	13 May 1914 Nadterechnoe, Chechnya, Russian Empire
Died	23 May 1986 (aged 73) Grozny, Chechen-Ingush ASSR, Soviet Union
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Service/branch	Cavalry
Years of service	1932–1946
Rank	Lieutenant colonel
Commands	255th Separate Chechen-Ingush Cavalry Regiment
Battles/wars	World War II
Awards	Hero of the Soviet Union (1990)

Movlid Visaitov (Russian: Мавлид Алероевич Висаитов; 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^[1] 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^{[clarification needed]} in the Kyrgyz SSR where many other deported Chechens and Ingush were located since 1944.