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Gubaidulla Genghis Khan was born on May 6, 1840 at the Khan's Headquarters. After graduating from the Imperial Pages Corps in St. Petersburg, from June 16, 1856, he began serving in the Life Guards Cossack Regiment with the rank of a cornet and received the title of prince; "General-Prince Genghis Khan", as he was called in the Russian imperial environment.

In 1857 he was transferred to Orenburg, appointed to the post of a special officer for Kazakhs, Bashkirs and Tatars. In 1866, the captain Genghis Khan was sent to the disposal of the ataman of the Don Cossacks, a year later he was transferred to serve in the northwestern part of the Russian Empire.

In 1877-1878. participated in the Russian-Turkish war. On August 31, 1877, the adjutant wing, Colonel of the Life Guards of the Cossack Regiment, Genghis Khan Gubaidulla, was awarded the Golden Sword with the inscription “For Bravery”. On January 1, 1878, he was promoted to major general with admission to the Retinue of His Imperial Majesty. In the same year he was awarded the Serbian Grand Officer's Cross. In 1879 he was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd degree with swords.

In 1882 he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislaus 1st degree and the Montenegrin gold medal "For Bravery".

He was the head of the telegraphs of the Army, served as the head of the telegraph department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Then he headed the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kazakh (then Kyrgyz) people and was the personal adviser to the emperor on Asian problems. Gubaidulla Zhangirov was directly involved in the development of regulations on elections to the first State Duma of Russia. According to this provision, the Kazakhs for the first time received the right to elect representatives of their people to it.

In the last year of his life, his wife was a hereditary noblewoman, actress Feodosia Velinskaya (1858-1931) (two months after her husband's death she received the surname Genghis Khan), the famous first performer of the role of Snow Maiden in the opera The Snow Maiden by N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov.

In the Moscow Kremlin, on the white marble wall in the St. George Hall, his name is carved.

He was buried at the Derikoi Muslim cemetery near Yalta.