After completing secondary school he studied at the Grozny aeroclub while working in local industries.

[1] Ozdoev totaled 69 combat sorties during which he gained three aerial victories, including a high-altitude Focke-Wulf Fw-189 which had been labeled by the Soviet Air Forces as a difficult target.

During the Battle of Kursk, he shot down two Fw 190s in one sortie while escorting a group of Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bombers.

While escorting a group of bombers on 25 January 1945 his plane was hit by an anti-aircraft missile from the ground, and he was presumed dead by his comrades who saw him shot down.

Four years after the death of Stalin, Ozdoev returned to his hometown of Nazran, where he lived for the remainder of his life.