Bakhtyuras Shampekuly Besikbayev (Kazakh: Бақтыораз Шәмпекұлы Бесікбаев; 1920 – 26 June 1941) was a gunner and radio operator in the 207th Long-Range Bomber Aviation Regiment during the Second World War.

[1] Besikbayev was born in 1920 to a Kazakh family the village of Ilinskoe in the Turkestan ASSR, in the area that is now Almaty, Kazakhstan.

On 26 June he was killed in action with the rest of the crew after Maslov attacked a German convoy on the Molodechno-Radoshkovichi highway in an Ilyushin Il-4 long-range bomber, possibly from a fire taran attack (the act of ramming a burning aircraft into the ground) initially attributed to Nikolai Gastello.

The crew was initially declared missing in action by the Soviet Air Forces and were resultingly considered potential traitors.

However, the findings were not immediately made public due to Gastello's status as being credited as the first to lead a fire taran attack.