Оne of the most prominent mining engineers of Ural in the XVIII century, the initiator of mining business development in Bashkortostan and a founder of the first higher technical school in Russia – the Mining College in Saint Petersburg.

In the second half of the XVIII century rapid development of industry started in Russia and especially mining business developed in Ural region. Russia desperately needed specialists with high qualification but invitations of foreign specialists in Russia were too expensive for Russian treasury, thus the group of Bashkir miners, headed by Ismail Tasimov, addressed itself to the Berg-Collegium with a proposal to open an education institution for training mining specialists at the expense of Bashkirs. He undertook to pay the percent from the incomes, obtained from mining business, in favour of the institution. The Senate and Katherine the Empress approved this proposal. In 1778-1781, Bashkir miners collected 4 thousand 594 roubles 93 kopecks for the maintenance of the newly founded college.

At present time the Mining College, founded by Ismail Tasimov, is called Saint-Petersburg Mining Academy. In 2007, it was decided to commemorate his name and to install a memorial tablet on the wall of the Academy.