Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov

Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov
Photo of Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov with his French medals (including Médaille militaire, Croix de Guerre, Medal for the War Wounded, Combatant's Cross and Croix des services militaires volontaires)
Native name
Əhmədiyyə Cəbrayılov
Birth nameAkhmediya Mikhailovich Dzhabrailov
Other namesAhmed Michel, Akmed Michel, Kharko (Karko)
Born(1920-09-22)22 September 1920
Died11 October 1994(1994-10-11) (aged 74)
Shaki, Azerbaijan
Allegiance Soviet Union
France
BranchPartisans
Service years1941–1945
RankLieutenant
CommandsReconnaissance and sabotage group (debatable)
AwardsMédaille militaire, Croix de Guerre, Combatant's Cross, Insignia for the Military Wounded, Croix des services militaires volontaires (fact of decoration is debatable)

Ahmadiyya Mikayil oghlu Jabrayilov (Azerbaijani: Əhmədiyyə Mikayıl oğlu Cəbrayılov, Russian: Ахмедия Микаил оглы Джебраилов; French: Akmed Michel; 22 September 1920 – 11 October 1994) was a purported French Resistance member of Azerbaijani ethnicity. The factual existence of Jabrailov is in dispute, with allegations that his official wartime biography was entirely fabricated Soviet propaganda.