Isa Akaiev

Nariman Narketovych Bilialov (Наріман Наркетович Білялов), better known as Isa Akaiev (Іса Акаєв), is a Ukrainian Crimean Tatar  civic activist and junior sergeant of the Main Directorate of Intelligence.

Biography
In 1944, his grandparents and parents were deported from Crimea to Uzbekistan, where he was born and trained as a civil engineer. In the early 1990s, they returned to their family homeland.

Akaiev participated in the Euromaidan protests.

In 2014, after the Russian takeover of Crimea, he left the peninsula and volunteered for the Dnipro-1 Battalion. With no combat experience, he founded and led the Krym Battalion, with which he defended Mariupol and participated in the battles for Savur-Mohyla. He was later demobilized. He helped his compatriots in mainland Ukraine. He was engaged in the popularization of Crimean Tatar traditions in Vinnytsia Oblast.

Since 2021, he has been the head of the Charitable Foundation "Krymly". Deputy Head of the public organization "Vetan" (Vinnytsia).

With the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, he returned to the front. Participated in the battles for Kyiv Oblast, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions and Bakhmut.

On 24 October 2022, he was put on the wanted list by the Russian occupiers in Crimea.

Awards

 * Order of Merit, III class (23 August 2021)