Mustafa Abdullaev was born in 1929 in the village of Ai-Serez. On May 18, 1944, he was sent alone, without his family, to the Urals, where he lived in an orphanage for more than 3 years. After some time, Mustafa-aga learned about the death of his parents and brother in Central Asia. Despite all the difficulties in a foreign land, he survived, withstood all the trials and was one of the first to return his family to their homeland — to Crimea.