[1] Zelimkhan Yaqub was born on 21 January 1950, in Bolnisi Municipality, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union.

[2] He graduated from high school in the village where he was born in 1967, and in 1972 from the library faculty of the Azerbaijan State University.

His first poem was published on 4 October 1966, in the "Flag of Victory" newspaper of the Bolnisi district of the Georgian SSR.

From 1995 to 2000, he visited China, Saudi Arabia, Germany, the United States, Sweden, Switzerland, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, France and Iraq as part of the official delegation.

[3] On 5 October 2012, the New York Association of Azerbaijan, which operates in the United States, awarded the People's Poet with an Honorary Diploma and a Medal.