He served as a legal consultant in the private security branch of the Directorate of the Federal Service for Foreign Affairs of Russia for the Republic of Dagestan in Kaspiysk.

Upon learning that Nurbagandov was a policeman, the attackers pushed him and his brother into the trunk of a car, drove away from the recreation area, and shot him.

[3] The attackers, who called themselves recruits of the "Islamic State," filmed everything that was happening on a mobile phone camera and later uploaded the video to an extremist website.

On September 22, 2016 Nurbagandov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for showing courage and heroism in the line of duty.

Subsequently the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of Russia changed Bekbolatov's sentence to life imprisonment.