His father Sulim was a participant of the Caucasian War on the side of Imam Shamil and took an active part in the founding of Kurchaloy.

[1] Because of the imperial policy of military and economic blockade, Chechens began to assemble mounted detachments to raid Cossack villages, one of which included Tovbolat.

A. Gapurov notes:[3] Apart from raids for the sake of booty, there were also those in which the highlanders regarded any action on the Russian side either as revenge for their kin killed during punitive campaigns of Cossacks and tsarist troops on the highland lands, or as a struggle for freedom.In one of the Zaterechny raids he was seriously wounded and lost an arm in a skirmish with the Cossacks.

Son Shota married a avturinka, their descendants under the surname Shataevs live in the town of Kurchaloy.

The Tovbolat Ridge (Chechen: ТӀоболт дукъ, romanized: T'obolt duqh) is located in the vicinity of the town of Kurchaloy.