Anvar Murtazievich Davydov was born on March 21, 1919, into a peasant family in the village of Kamyshla, Kuibyshev region.
Anvar Davydov began his poetic path quite early. When he was 12 years old, his first poems were published in the newspaper "Commune".
At the end of 1936, at the invitation of Mirza's older brother, who was a well-known journalist, Anvar Davydov went to Novosibirsk, where he began working as a literary employee at the editorial office of the Soviet Siberia newspaper.
In 1940, Anvar was called up for military service in the Soviet army. After returning from the army in 1946, A. Davydov was appointed editor of the district newspaper in his native village.