Alibi Dzhangildin was born in to the a large family of a poor shepherd nomad (sharua) from the Kipchak people in the Middle Jüz.

In 1908, Shangeldin left Russia with a passport in the name of Nikolai Stepnov and began a world tour, earning his living by photographing interesting places and selling the photos.

He traveled mostly on foot through Poland, Austria-Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Palestine, Egypt, Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, India, Siam, Annam and southern China, while he finally stayed in Japan only briefly in 1912, as he was able to return to Russia due to the amnesty on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty.

[1] Because Dzhangildin was not allowed to stay in his home region of Turgay after his return, he worked at weather stations in Crimea in 1913 and was active as a revolutionary among the Crimean Tatars.

On behalf of the party, Dzhangildin went incognito to the Torghai region to join Amangeldy Imanov in leading the rebellious Basmachi.

[4] After the October Revolution, Dzhangildin met Vladimir Lenin in Moscow, who appointed him acting commissar of the Turgay region.

During the Russian Civil War, Dzhangildin gathered pro-Bolshevik forces for Joseph Stalin in the Turgay region in January 1918 to fight against the Alash Orda.

The Congress elected him a member of the Presidium, Vice-chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Republic and People's Commissar for Social Security.