Ismail Bayazitov was born on 20 December 1926 in Kogaly village in the former Taldy-Korgan oblast. In 1943, at the age of 17 he went off to war.

He served for a separate signal regiment. For a long time his regiment was deployed at the territory of Poland. In 1951 he came back home. Having finished eight years of school he decided to complete his education after the war. While working he finished ten years of school.

In 1953 – 1958 he studied in Alma-Ata in agricultural college as an electrical engineer.

He worked at the bief and dairy factory in the Lepsi state farm as an electrical engineer, later in SredAzEnergoRemont in Alma-Ata city as chief foreman, after that he changed for a design institute, worked for EnergoSet Proyekt and KazEnergoNaladka as a chief engineer. In 1964-1987 he worked in the Ministry of Energy and Electrification of Kazakh SSR as a chief engineer. There, in the Ministry of Energy, Ismail Bayazitov worked till his retirement.