 After completing his studies, Sobir served as a translator in Afghanistan for a year.Thereafter, he worked at various newspapers and magazines in Soviet Tajikistan, including "Education and Culture" (), "Voice of the East" ("Sadoi Shark"), and "Justice" ("Adolat").He was also commissioned to translate works of British poet and politician Lord Byron, French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Guillaume Apollinaire, Chilean poet and politician Pablo Neruda, Russian poet Sergei Yesenin and Lithuanian-Soviet poet Eduardas Mieželaitis.