Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - an haifi Vidayev a Samara Oblast, shi ɗan kabilar Mordvin ne. Ya gama makarantar sakandare a Murmansk a 1930 kuma ya kammala karatu tare da bambanci daga M.V. Frunze Higher Naval School a 1937. Ya shiga rundunar jiragen ruwa na Arewacin Arewa kuma ya fara aiki a matsayin mai kula da jirgin ruwa a kan jirgin ruwa "D-2". A shekara ta 1938 ya shiga cikin ceton masu bincike hudu daga tashar kankara. Ya shiga cikin Soviet Finnish War
na 1939-1940 kewaye da Petsamo.