He is Kurdish by ethnicity. His family moved from Kazakhstan to Russia, to the Krasnodar Krai.
Today, he lives in the village of Novospasskoe in Pervomaysky District, Tambov Oblast.
He is trained as a mechanic, but he enjoys working in agriculture and animal husbandry.
The family runs a large private farm: they keep sheep, cows, and chickens, and they also have their own vegetable garden.