Abdullah Kahkhar was born on September 4 (17), 1907 in Asht district, Asht village, Sari Bozor street (now Sughd region) in the family of a blacksmith Abdukakhkhar Zhalilov. In 1919-1924, he studied at school. After graduating from the Kokand Pedagogical College in 1924-1926, he worked in the Kokand Komsomol City Committee, then in the editorial office of the newspaper "Kyzyl Uzbekistan" in Tashkent. In 1926-1934 he studied at the Faculty of Labor, and then at the Pedagogical Faculty of the firs