page_title: Javad Hakimli
section_title: World War II
hierarchical_section_title: Javad Hakimli / Biography / World War II
caption_attribution_description: Slovenščina: Komandir Diavat Akimov (levo) in politični komisar Vinko Tomc (desno) ruske čete 1. bataljona Gradnikove brigade.
context_page_description: Senior Lieutenant Javad Hakimli was an Azerbaijani-Soviet guerrilla who commanded a Soviet POW battalion of the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II.
  He is most noted for being the commander of Mehdi Huseynzade, a Hero of the Soviet Union whose military exploits he recounted after the war.
context_section_description: In the first days of the war, Javad a graduate of the Tbilisi and Ordzhonikidze Military School was sent to the Crimean Front. In 1942, in the Kalach District of Russia he was seriously wounded in battle and captured by the Wehrmacht, later receiving treatment in a hospital in Pryluky. Javad was soon transferred to Mirgorod, where he encountered fellow Soviet POW Mehdi Huseynzade.
  Javad Hakimli spent one and a half years in the German POW camps in Northern Italy and Yugoslavia. On February 1944, Javad was near Trieste in the village of Vila Opicina with fellow Soviet POWs Mehdi Huseynzade and Asad Gurbanov escaped into the Slovenian woods, where they joined up with the 9th Corps of the Yugoslav Partisans. Javad later took part in Vila Opicina's liberation in collaboration with Josip Broz Tito's army, where on May 3, 1945 he crossed the streets of the city with his companions.
caption: Javad Hakimli (left) with 1st "Russian company" commissioner Vinko Tomc
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