Polat Jumaniyazovich Oteniyazov was born on 24 May 1985 in Nukus, the capital of the Republic of Karakalpakstan. He studied at the Faculty of Philology of Karakalpakstan State University from 2003 to 2009. In 2020 he defended his PhD thesis on "Genre features and poetics of Karakalpak folk fairy tales".