He received his first education at the Rushdia school located in Tiflis under the Transcaucasia spiritual administration.

[4][8] After arriving in Baku, on September 15, 1900, he passed the inspection commission to work in the Russian-Tatar school.

After moving to Baku, he met Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, Nariman Narimanov, Habib Bey Mahmudbeyov and other intellectuals.

[15] After the Quran was first translated into Azerbaijani by Mirmohammed Karim Mirjafarzadeh, it was printed with the financial support of Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev.

Yusif Ziya Talibzade was assigned to deliver this gift and Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev's letter to the sultan.

Based on the article written by Naghi Bey Sheykhzamanli in 1957, the gifted book was decorated with precious jewelry and diamonds worth 4,000 gold lira.

[16] According to the article written by Kamal Talibzadeh in 1992, 50 of the books were printed with gold water and were made valuable.

And the cover of the gifted book was made of thick silver, and the words "La ilaha illallah, Muhammedan Rasulillah" were written in the middle.

Yusif Ziya bey Talibzadeh was appointed as the chairman of the commission for the organization of volunteer groups, and they gave him a monthly salary of five thousand rubles.

This organization, which operates as a group of volunteer soldiers, has fulfilled the duties of maintaining order and peace in the country, and preventing illegal actions.

This regiment named "Voluntary Auxiliary Regiment" was placed under the control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic on March 27, 1920, by the decision of the State Defense Committee of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic.

[33] In October 1921, the Council of People's Commissars of Nakhchivan included food, land, finance, health, education, internal affairs, military affairs, people's commissariats of labor and rural inspection, foreign affairs, communications, labor, internal trade, social security, justice, foreign trade, emergency commission, national economy council and military tribunal commissariats were also created.

[34] Returning to Baku at the end of 1922, Yusif Ziya met with Nariman Narimanov and said that he did not want to serve the Soviet regime and could not adapt to this structure.

Having received an official document from N. Narimanov to leave the borders of the Soviet Union, he left Azerbaijan.

Here, together with Anvar Pasha[36] and Zaki Validi Togan,[34][37] he joined the Basmachi movement fighting against the Bolsheviks.