Gainetdin Zainetdinovich Gataullin was born in 1913 in the village of Tuzovo, Ichkinsky volost, Chelyabinsk district, Orenburg province. Tatar Soviet poet.
He graduated from the 7th grade of secondary school in his native village, then, in 1926-1930, he studied at the school of peasant youth in the village of Almenevo.
Was elected secretary of the Komsomol committee of the technical school. In 1937 he entered the correspondence department of the Kazan State Pedagogical Institute.
In July 1941 he was enrolled as a cadet of the Kirov Infantry School.
Killed in action on December 28, 1941 near the village of Gavrilovo, Novoshynsky village council, Lotoshinsky district, Moscow region. He was buried in a mass grave by the road to the village of Brenevo, now the village of Osheykinskoye, Lotoshinsky district, Moscow region.