[1] Bakhayev was born on 2 February 1922 to a Russian peasant family in the village of Dvurechki, part of the present-day Gryazinsky District.

[4][5] It was not until September that he scored his next aerial victories, but from then on he quickly increased his tally, hitting F-80, F-84, F-86, and B-29 aircraft.

44-27347), which made an emergency landing in Kimpo where it was written off, since the fire Bakhaev caused completely destroyed the aircraft.

However, Nikolai Kovalenko described during a postwar interview an incident when Bakhayev saved him from attacking fighters.

[11] A vast majority of sources, both Western and Russian, credit him with eleven solo aerial victories in the war; however, such tallies include aircraft that were written off after making emergency landings on friendly territory.

In 1955 he was transferred to the 30th Aviation Division as a flight instructor, but in late 1958 he became the assistant commander for fire and tactical training of the 18th Guards Fighter Regiment, but was forced to retire from the military in October 1959 with the rank of major due to his poor health; just a few months earlier on 26 April 1959 he suffered a spinal cord injury after being forced to eject from a plane about to crash.