Bayazit Bikbai (Bayazit Gayazovich Bikbaev) was born on the 19th January, 1909 in the village of Kalta, Kumertau region, Bashkortostan. He studied at the Bashkir Pedagogical College in Orenburg.
He took up literature in the 1930s, worked in the genres of poetry, prose and playwriting. In his famous work “The Land’ written in the 30s he represented an original poetic image of the historical past and the present of Bashkir people.