Ravil Bikbaev

[3] Additionally, he was a professor and served as a deputy and chairman of the Committee on Education, Science, Culture, Sports, and Youth Affairs in The State Assembly — Kurultai of the Republic of Bashkortostan (2008–2013).

After completing his university studies, he pursued postgraduate education at the Institute of History, Language, and Literature of the Bashkir Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences from 1962 to 1965.

Between 2008 and 2013, he held the position of chairman of the Committee on Education, Science, Culture, Sports, and Youth Affairs of The State Assembly — Kurultai of the Republic of Bashkortostan.

As a researcher, Bikbaev was always deeply interested in the poetic and spiritual world of his contemporaries and predecessors, as well as in the most pressing issues regarding the development of Bashkir poetry and literature.

[7] Bikbaev played an active role in the cultural and public life of the Republic of Bashkortostan, frequently publishing sharp publicist and critical articles in the press.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Bikbaev traveled extensively, representing Bashkir literature in the United States, France, Turkey, South Korea, Germany, and CIS countries.

In 2008, Bikbaev was elected a deputy of the State Assembly – Kurultai of the Republic of Bashkortostan, where he chaired the Committee on Education, Science, Culture, Sports, and Youth Affairs.

The issues of the writer’s relationship with time, morality, and the development paths of contemporary literature are addressed in Bikbaev’s publicist work Dastan about Bashkortostan, published in 2013.

He also actively supported the commemoration of prominent Bashkir cultural figures, such as Mustai Karim, Zainab Biisheva, Zagir Ismagilov, Amir Abdrakhmanov, and others.

Thanks to Bikbaev and his scholarly research in the field of Bashkir literary history, the powerful words and legacy of Shaikhzada Babich resonated with new strength and vibrancy.

This was done to create a multimedia archive of materials related to the life, public, scholarly, and creative activities of the poet, philologist, publicist, and former chairman of the Writers’ Union of the Republic of Bashkortostan.

The multimedia archive was created with the aim of collecting and systematizing documents and information about the life, creative work, and public activities of the People’s Poet of Bashkortostan, Professor, and Doctor of Philological Sciences, Ravil Bikbaev.

This will facilitate the search for essential information for schoolchildren, students, researchers, and anyone interested in the biography and work of one of the most prominent representatives of Bashkir literature and science at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Caption: Ravil Bikbaev in Vatan Park. Photo from the family collection