After graduating from the latter worked as a teacher in his alma mater and in village of Äce [tt] (Azeyevo) in Tambov Governorate until 1917.

[1] In 1918 he was a secretary of the Collegium for the implementation of the Idel-Ural State; at the same time, he was a chairman of Bashkir Central Council.

During 1920s and 1930s he collaborated with many Tatar-language newspapers and journals: Yäş eşçe (Young Worker), Tamaşaçı (Spectator), Suğışçan Allasız (Militant Atheist), İgençelär (Farmers), etc.

He was sentenced to death on 16 August 1938, by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR and executed the same day.

[5] Atnağulof was married to Zöhrä Atnağulova (née Mostafina), with whom he had two daughters, Çäçkä and Gölkäy and a son, Wil, a writer; to avoid further persecution, they were forced to change their last names.