He was nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 9 July 1943, but was initially awarded only the Order of Lenin.

He worked as a tractor driver before the war and would hunt using an old Bergen rifle in his spare time.

[4][5][3] Suleymanov served with the 100th Separate Kazakh Rifle Brigade as a regular soldier and received his baptism by fire in the city of Rzhev.

[3] In July 1943 he was nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union for killing 239[6][7] Nazi soldiers and officers.

He gained fame and was celebrated in Soviet newspapers, and the Kazakh poet Jambul wrote a poem dedicated to him.