Memet Bilyalovich Molochnikov (russian: Мемет Билялович Молочников; 30 December 1912 — 19 January 2003) was a Crimean Tatar commissar, Communist Party member, partisan, and military lawyer.

World War II activities

He was drafted into the Red Army in 1941 and originally worked in the military tribunal of the 48th Cavalry Division. After the division became surrounded during a Nazi military offensive he switched to working in the partisan military tribunal system. From 10 October 1942 to 5 January 1943 he was the secretary of the Military Tribunal of the Crimean Partisan Detachments in Qarasubazar. The tribunal handled a wide range of types of cases. After the Crimean Partisan groups were reorganized, he served as a partisan, commanding a sabotage group. While functioning as a partisan in Crimea, he personally participated in military combat operations, personally killing two Nazis as well as helping destroy vehicles.

Personal life

He was born to a Crimean Tatar family on 30 December 1912 in Bakhchisarai. Before the war he worked at the Supreme Court of the Crimean ASSR. After the war he worked at the Krasny Dvigatel Plant in

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. In 1968 he became one of the signatories of the very unpopular

Letter of Seventeen The "Letter of Seventeen" () was a wildly unpopular open letter to the exiled Crimean Tatar community in published in Lenin Bayrağı in March 1968 condemning desire for right of return among other Crimean Tatars. It was often dubbed "the lette ...

that encouraged other Crimean Tatars to give up on their dreams of returning to Crimea. He died in

on 19 January 2003.

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