In 1915, Jabbarly graduated from high school and studied electromechanics at Baku Polytechnicum for the next 5 years.

[1] Jafar Jabbarly died at the age of 35 of heart failure and was buried at the Alley of Honor.

The national film studio, Azerbaijanfilm, a street, a square and a metro station in Baku are named after him.

His works were very much influenced by the 1920s propaganda of Communist glory and celebrated appropriate themes such as equality, labour, education, cosmopolitanism, emancipation of women, cultural shifts, etc.

Both focused on the theme of the role of women, their oppression, struggle, and ultimately, victory over dated patriarchal traditions.