From 1919 to 1924, Kerbabayev worked as a district instructor and served as the head of the rural department of national education.

At the same time, he translated the works of Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol, and Count Leo Tolstoy into the Turkmen language.

3, 1955) the role of agriculture in the socialist revolution and friendly relations of Turkmen farmers with Russians are vividly depicted.

During World War II, Kerbabyev published the play "Hero of the Soviet Union Kurban Durdy" (1942), the poem "Aylar" (1943), the tragedy about the great Turkmen poet and patriot "Magtymguly" (1943), the play "Brothers" (1943), the libretto for the first modern Turkmen opera, "Abadan", the short stories "Who won?

"Aysoltan from the Land of White Gold" (1949), about the daily life of a collective farming village, and the novel "Nebit-Dag" (1957), about petroleum industry workers, were written during that period.