Dzhukalayeva was born in the village of Tazbichi[ru] in the Itum-Kale region in 1881 and grew up there.

[5] Dzhukalayeva heard about the 1917 Revolution months later when her husband went to sell wood in Grozny.

[4] In February 1944, Dzukalayeva, along with all other Chechens, was deported to Kazakhstan; on the journey her daughter Pesy died, but they were unable to bury her.

[4] Towards the end of her life she lived with her grand-daughter, but had an extended family of nine grandchildren, eighteen great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren.

Prior to her death Dzhukalayeva was recognized in Russia as the oldest woman in Chechnya.