He did create the Bashkir Folk Dance Ensemble, which was recognized in the country as a highly professional choreographic company and which captured the audiences in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Born in Birsk, Faizi Gaskarov became an orphan early in hi life. "I could not tell my national belonging but I felt a person of the Bashkir land. Since childhood, I loved the arts of the local people and became am artiste thanks to them. I have served these arts throughout the whole of my life trying to preserve uniqueness of Bashkir dances. It is for this reason that I regard myself a Bashkir".

Gaskarov would later recollect his hungry childhood and his first dance performances at village sabantui festivals to earn a piece of bread. Educated at an orphanage in Birsk and later at a pedagogical secondary school he joined a theatrical orchestra and dance ensemble in Ufa as a student in 1925. He worked hard and found time to simultaneously attend classes at the musical department of the Bashkir secondary arts school. The teenager was encouraged and supported by kind people who helped him develop his talent. In 1932, assisted by Valiulla Murtazin-Imanski, the young lad entered the choreographic school under the Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR, where Igor Moiseyev was his instructor. The latter would later invite his pupil to become a soloist of the State Folk Dance Ensemble of the USSR and his assistant. Viewers appreciated the dancer's talent and his fiery temperament. Moiseyev entrusted him to work with the troupe. But Faizi Gaskarov, having numerous Bashkir dances to his credit, dreamt of founding an ensemble of his own in Bashkiria.

Igor Moiseyev supported the idea and said: "You will come back to Moscow if you are unsuccessful".

The creation of the Bashkir Folk Dance Ensemble was a challenging task. Ernst Krenkel, Deputy of the USSR Supreme Soviet representing Bashkiria, who was then visiting Ufa, supported Gaskarov and requested to allocate monies for the troupe that comprised forty dancers and twelve kurai players. Rehearsals started and the company went on tours to Bashkiria's districts. The Ensemble was warmly received in the countryside, and the first performance in Ufa was held on May 5, 1939. That was the birthday of the Bashkir Folk Dance Ensemble and its artistic director Faizi Gaskarov.

It is only after some time that the company was granted the status of a state ensemble. Plans were made to stage a ten-day presentation of Bashkir arts and literature in Moscow in June 1941 and the Ensemble was assiduously preparing for the event. The Great Patriotic War broke out, however, and the plans never materialized. The troupe was disbanded and Faizi Gaskarov went to the front where he created a front-line dancing company.

In 1953, Faizi Gaskarov returned to Ufa and headed the folk dance ensemble again. Essentially, the team had to be created from scratch. Having shaped the company's principal cast he started to rehears the danced that were supposed to be taken to Moscow to be performed within the framework of the Bashkir Arts and Literature Days in 1955.

The success of the Bashkir Fold Dance Ensemble was overwhelming and that was logical and well-deserved. Over the thirty years, the Ensemble's artistic director had investigated ways of life, ethnography, folklore of the Bashkir nation and had created lots of masterpieces.

Arts critics state that Faizi Gaskarov has created over one hundred dances. There are dances in the Ensemble's repertoire that have become genuinely folk ones. True arts, if they are truthful, talented and sincere, will never fade and people consider them as their own and native. Faizi Gaskarov's natural gift and laboriousness allowed him to create a gallery of unforgettable images and characters. Just enumerating the dances he created tells the public a lot: "Zarifa", "Gulnazira", "Three Brothers", "Baik", "Mowers", "Northern Amurs".

Gazim Shafikov points out that Faizi Gaskarov's was an unaccommodating nature and the maestro himself suffered from it. He could not bear administrative interference with his work, he hated being dictated. He was no diplomat talking to the bosses, he used to get nervous, irritated and outspoken. That exasperated the higher authorities.

Faizi Gaskarov had to abandon the troupe though his creative forces were not depleted. In spite of his failing health, the dancer and choreographer, Merited Artiste of Russia and Bashkortostan continued to work in Abzelilovski and Uchalinski districts establishing wonderful dancing companies there.

He told his friend Ildus Khabirov about his dream: "After I am gone, I would like to come back after many years and to see my "Three Brothers" on stage. Performers will be new and unknown to me, but the dance will be the same, the way I created it - intact and integral".