On 23 February 1944 his family was deported along with the entire Ingush civilian population; the Soviet government had labeled Vainakh peoples as "traitors to the motherland" and ordered the mass relocation of them to prison settlements in Central Asia. Yaponts Abadiyev was recalled from the front, but not immediately sent to a "special settlement" and was instead allowed to command a reserve regiment in Orenburg and then serve as deputy commander of the 28th Reserve Regiment in Bashkortostan. When the war officially ended he was stationed in Gorky as a battalion commander. After the war he was assigned to command construction battalions in Vladimir, Ryazan, Moscow, Berezniki, and Kuibyshev, before returning to Ingushetia in the early 1980s. He retired from the military in the 1950s with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After his death in 1985 he was posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin, the medal of which was presented to his living relatives.