When he was just four, his family was expelled from their native land and they moved to the Uzbek SSR due to the deportation of the Karachays.

In 1991, he became a commander-in-chief of Soviet Land Forces and deputy minister of the Ministry of Defence.

[2] In May 1999 he won the presidential elections in Karachay–Cherkessia which caused ethnic tension between Karachays and Cherkesses.

On August 31, 2003, he lost in the general election and left his post to Mustafa Batdyyev.

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