Mustai Karim (Bashkir: Мостай Кәрим, real name Mustafa Safich Karimov Bashkir: Мостафа Сафа улы Кәримов, 20 October 1919 – 21 September 2005), was a Bashkir Soviet poet, writer and playwright. He was named People's poet of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1963), Hero of Socialist Labor (1979), and winner of the Lenin Prize (1984) and the State Prize of the USSR (1972).