A Bashkir, Kamaletdinov was born in Zlatoust, Russia and spent his early childhood in a village near Ufa, Bashkiria, which by coincidence is the same village where the great dancer Rudolf Nureyev grew up.
According the directive № 0444 of People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR Josef Stalin on November 26 1941, established the South Ural Military District in Bashkir, Headquarters of the Military District was in Chkalov, appointed Lieutenant General Vladimir Nikolaevich Kurdyumov as commander.
March 28, 1919 during the transition to the side of the Bashkir Army Red Army Shaikhzada Babich was brutally murdered by the Red Army in the village of Zilair Zilairsky District BASSR.
Musa Gareyev (1922-1987), Bashkir Soviet ace, twice Hero of the Soviet Union
Nina Valetova was born in Berdyash, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union and graduated as a Specialist from the Faculty of Arts and Graphics of Bashkir State Pedagogical Institute in Ufa.