In the late 1920s and early 1930s, he served in the Turkmen cavalry regiment in the village of Keshi (now a neighbourhood of Ashgabat).

In 1932, he successfully completed a three-month training course for elementary school teachers at the Ashgabat Pedagogical Institute, and was sent to the Kerki District (in what is now the Lebap Region), where for three years he worked as an elementary school teacher[2] in the villages of Chekir and Dashlyk.

He actively participated in public life, being elected as a delegate to the Republican Student Conference.

After graduating from college with honours, he worked in the financial authorities of Kerki, Tashauz, Bäherden, Geoktepe, Ashgabat.

[6] His wife, two of his sons, and other members of his family were killed in the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake six years later that caused extreme damage to the city.