Makhmud Esambayev was born on July 15, 1924 in Starye Atagi, Chechen Autonomous Oblast, RSFSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Amak va qizil gül (1963), Zemlya Sannikova (1974) and Chestnoe volshebnoe (1975). He died on January 7, 2000 in Moscow, Russia.