He was born in a Dehkan (peasant) family, where his father could only sign.According to some sources, he is a descendant of Iranian captive slaves.In 1947 he graduated from the Khodzhelinsky Pedagogical College. At the same time he began his career as a school teacher. In 1955, after graduating from the Karakalpak State Pedagogical Institute, he worked as a literary employee of the literary and artistic magazine of the Union of Writers of Karakalpakstan "Amudarya".