[1] An ethnic Uzbek and Uyghur,[2] Yuldash Akhunbabaev was born near the city of Margilan in a village called Dzhuybazar in Russian Turkestan.

He was born into a poor peasant family and began to work as a farmworker for a large landowner from the age of nine.

[5] After the formation of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, he was appointed as the Chairman of the Margilan branch of the Koshchi Peasant Union.

He held the position of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR until his death in 1943.

He also sent thousands of wagons loaded with flour, oil, fabrics, wool, metals, and other useful items to the front, using railways.

[11] Yuldash Akhunbabaev died on 28 February 1943 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union.