18 July] 1912 in Aravan to an Uzbek peasant family,[1] he worked as a farmer starting when he was only twelve years old, but in 1929 he was made head of the district committee of the Komsomol.

[2] Upon graduating from the institute as an engineer-geologist, he headed a geological expedition to study the Langar tungsten-molybdenum deposits in the Uzbek SSR.

[3][4] In 1940, he returned to Tashkent, where he worked at the Central Asian Polytechnic Institute as an assistant professor in the Minerals Department of the Faculty of Mining.

[7] Having become a member of the Communist Party in 1941,[9] he held a variety of high offices in the government in addition to his academic posts.

[10] In addition, he was chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Uzbek SSR from 1944 to 1948[11][10] He was a deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR in the 4th convocation (1955-1959) and the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in the 5th convocation (1958-1962), as well as a delegate at the XXI Congress of the CPSU in 1959.