Since 1925 he served as member of the board of the Supreme Court of the Turkmen region, responsible instructor of the Ashgabat district committee of the All-Union Communist Party.
In 1926-29 he served as Executive Secretary of the Baherden District committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan.
[3] From February 1934 he was head of the agricultural department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
For some period until July 1937 he served as People's Commissar of Agriculture of the Turkmen SSR.
On 21.07.1937 he was recommended by the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for the post of chairman of the presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Turkmen SSR.,[4] serving de-facto as head of state of the Turkmen SSR.