«Небит-Даг» — книга о нефтяниках нового социалистического города, возникшего в бескрайней туркменской степи,— создана человеком, отлично знающим и своих героев, и их нелегкий труд.
Берды Кербабаев بيردي كيربابايف Berdi was a Soviet Turkmen writer, the national writer of the Turkmen SSR (1967), an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Turkmen SSR (1951) and a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1948.
He was born in a peasant family. Until 1917 he studied at the aul school (mektebo), then in the Bukhara madrasah.
He participated in the Basmach movement (detachment of Eziz Khan Chapyk). In May 1919, he sided with the Red Army. During the Civil War, he served as an employee of the political department of the Trans-Caspian Front.
In 1919-1924 he worked as a district instructor and head of the volost department of public education, chairman of the volost executive committee. In 1927-1928 he studied at the Leningrad Institute of Oriental Studies. In 1924-1934 - at the editorial work (in the newspaper "Turkmenistan", in the journal "Tokmak", in the State Publishing House of Turkmenistan). In 1934-1936 he was the head of the science department under the People's Commissariat of the Turkmen SSR. In 1942-1950, he was chairman of the board of the Union of Writers of the Turkmen SSR, later he was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Turkmen SSR, a member of the Committee on Stalin Prizes.