Maintenance Centre №6 - Kharkiv, Sumy, Konotop, Poltava, Lozova, Kupyansk, Izum, Kremenchuk, Khorol
Bayev was born in Konotop, Sumy Oblast, in Ukraine, where his father, Yuri Korneyevich, served in the military.
In April 1943, he was a senior aide to the chief of intelligence of the 18th Guards Rifle Corps of the 13th Army of the Central Front in the Battle of Kursk where he was involved in the defensive battles in the area west of Station Ponyri, the counterattack at Sevsk, Konotop, and Priluki.