[2] Mahmud-Ali Kalimatov was born in Chemolgan (present day Ushkonyr in Kazakhstan) on 9 April 1959.

Since 1990, in the service of the prosecution authorities of the Kuibyshev oblast, he began as an investigator of the district prosecutor's office.

[4] On June 26, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Kalimatov as the acting head of the Republic of Ingushetia after the resignation of Yunus-bek Yevkurov.

[6][1] On January 27, 2020, Kalimatov dismissed the government of Ingushetia for unclear reasons, appointing an ethnic Russian, Konstantin Surikov, as the Prime Minister of the Republic.

He was posthumously awarded Hero of the Russian Federation, after he died during shelling by unknown persons in 2007.