Born on 10 September 1915 in Shahrixon to an Uzbek family, in 1931 he graduated from a Russian secondary school in Kokand; he subsequently enrolled in the Central Asia State University.

After briefly serving in the Red Army, he returned to the university in 1942 to defend his doctoral dissertation.

When the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR was founded in 1943, he became its vice president.

His work on the theory of non-homogeneous Markov chains is cited in modern academic papers.

[7] For his work, he was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labour on 3 April 1990.