[1] In her youth she attended the Zeb-un-Nissa boarding school for girls in Tashkent, where she began acting in plays.

[3][4][5] She left Uzbekistan in 1924 as part of a group of 24 Uzbek theater students chosen to study in Moscow.

[7] The group returned to Uzbekistan in 1927, where they were in danger of being attacked by religious fanatics for their encouragement of unveiling.

She was also a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR, a delegate to the 19th Congress of the Communist Party, and a deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from the 2nd to 4th convocations (1946 to 1958).

[12][16] Her husband Abror Hidoyatov was theater actor who received the title People's Artist of the USSR in 1945.