Poet Dzh. Jamgyrchiev was born in the village of Kok-Sai in the present-day Ton district of the Issyk-Kul region in the family of a local biya.
During the events of 1916, he, along with refugees, ended up in China, where he worked as a laborer for the wealthy.
In 1918, he returned to his homeland. In 1919, he studied at a rural literacy school, from 1922 to 1925 he attended the Central Asian State University in Tashkent, and in 1928 he graduated from the Kyrgyz Pedagogical Technical School in Frunze.
From 1929 to 1935, he worked in the People's Commissariat for Education of the Kyrgyz ASSR, served as the director of the Jalal-Abad Pedagogical Technical School, from 1935 to 1939 he taught at the Osh Party School, and at the Kyrgyz-Uighur schools in the city of Andijan in the Uzbek SSR. From 1939 to 1941, he was a teacher at the Osh two-year teacher training institute, and from 1941 to 1942, he taught at the Topokey Secondary School named after A. M. Gorky.
At the end of 1942, Dzh. Jamgyrchiev went to the front, and in 1944 he died in battle against the German-fascist invaders.
The creative biography of the poet begins during his studies at the pedagogical technical school. Like many aspiring writers of that time, Dzh. Jamgyrchiev initially wrote propaganda poems about Lenin, the October Revolution, the Communist Party, the liberated woman of the East, and the new life of the Kyrgyz people. His first poetry collection titled "Yrlаr zhıy-nagy" was published in 1931. The other two editions of the poet's works were released in the post-war period.
He has been a member of the Union of Soviet Writers since 1942.
SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS
in Kyrgyz language
Yrlаr zhıy-nagy. — Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1931. — 97 pages. A collection of poems.
Tанкы жарык: Yrlаr zhıy-nagy. — Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1959. — 180 pages. Light at dawn.
Yrlаr. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1975. — 98 pages. Poems.
