The poem "Gazaz" (1916) Shaikhzada Muhametzakirovich Babich (Russian: Шайхзада Мухаметзакирович Бабич; Bashkir: Шәйехзада Мөхәммәтзәкир улы Бабич, romanized: Şəyexzada Möxəmmətzəkir ulı Babiç; 14 January 1895 – 28 March 1919) was a Bashkir poet, writer and playwright.

Shaikhzada Muhametzakirovich Babich was born in the village of Əsən, in the Ufa Governorate of what was then the Russian Empire, on 14 January 1895.

[1] He studied his primary education in his native village, in a madrasa directed by his father, Muhametzakir, with a Russian-appointed mullah from the Əsən mahallah.

He lived in Ufa for a short time during the summer of 1917, and then moved to Orenburg, where he worked for the satirical magazine Carmack (lit. 'Rod').

He only published one book in his lifetime, a collection of poems entitled Blue Songs, Young Bashkortostan, released in 1918 in Orenburg.