[1][2] After graduating from the Nikolaevskaya Cavalry school in 1907, he received the military rank of cornet and began serving in the 17th Nizhegorod Dragoon Regiment located in Tbilisi.

[4] On April 12, 1912, in the city of Gatchina, news spread that two officers, the lieutenant of the Cuirassier regiment, Karim Khan Iravanski and Navy Lieutenant Lev Lvovich Girard de Sukanto who was the son of the commander of the Cuirassier regiment,[6] Major-General Lev Fyodorovich Girard de Sukanto, were going to duel.

The participants of the duel, their seconds (two officers from the Cuirassir regiment from the Iravanski side, two naval officers from the Sukanton side), representatives of the Baltic fleet's naval mediation court and A. Ivanov and V. Pickel (two doctors from the Cuirassir regiment) were present here.

[9][10] Karim Khan Iravanski had a close friendship with Mikhail Romanov, the younger brother of Nicholas II, who was the commander of the Wild Division at the time.

[11] On January 9, 1915, for the battle that took place at night around the village of Vetlino, Chief of staff Khan Iravanski was awarded the Order of St. Anna of the fourth degree with the inscription "For Bravery".

[12] On February 17, 1915, he was presented to the leadership to be awarded with the Golden Weapon for Bravery for his distinction in the night battle that took place near the village of Maidan at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains (in present-day Ukraine).

It was written in the presentation: Chief of staff Khan Iravanski was sent to a particularly important task in the night battle near Meydan village on February 17, 1915.

He was assigned to restore contact with the Kabardin Cavalry Regiment under my command and the right flank of General Stakhovich's detachment.

Chief of staff Khan Iravanski successfully performed the task assigned to him, risking his life under the deadly fire of the enemy.

In November of the same year, Karim Khan protected the local population from bandit attacks in the village of Akhlovo (now Nizhniy Kurp) in Little Kabardia.

364 issued on January 28, 1919, it is known that Karim Khan had the rank of colonel and the number of volunteer fighters under his command was more than 1000 people.

In this order, it was mentioned that the combat unit led by him was subordinate to the headquarters headed by Lt. Col. Kalbali Khan Nakhchivanski.

The content of the phone call given by Karim Khan, the commander-in-chief of Sharur district: "French representatives are sitting in Iravan.

[28] On January 11, 1918, he married for the second time with Shamside Kumukovna Aydabulova, a representative of a Balkar noble family from Nalchik district.

Karim Khan's body was brought to the city of Nalchik by the help of front command and buried there in the Volniy Aul cemetery.