Vladimir Bakhmetyev was born in to the family of a minor official who worked as a clerk in the district zemstvo government.

[1][2] From 1911 to 1914, Bakhmetyev wrote for multiple magazine, both as a fiction writer and literary critic, where he predominantly defended the realist style.

Later Bakhmetyev became a member of the literary group “Kuznitsa” and the executive editor of its magazine.

He published his first book of stories “On Earth” (1924), the novel “Martyn’s Crime” (1928), set during the Russian Revolution and the Civil War, which attracted great attention.

[1] After the Second World War, always remaining in line with realism, Bakhmetyev published a number of stories, the theme of which was the heroism of Soviet soldiers on the battlefield.