 Gabit Musirepov was born on 22 March 1902 (9 March according to the Julian calendar) in a village located in Kostanay region, then belonging to the Russian Empire.Between 1923 and 1926, he studied at the Faculty of Workers in Orenburg, and then at the agroeconomic institute at Omsk.He started his literary career in 1925, writing his first story, "To the abyss" ("В пучине") in 1928, about events that occurred during the Russian Civil War, 1918–1920.