Born into the family of an employee. Greek. After graduating from an incomplete secondary school and 2 courses of the Tsalka Pedagogical College in his native village, he worked as a teacher in a rural school. He graduated from the correspondence department of the financial technical school in the capital of Georgia - the city of Tbilisi. In the Red Army in 1936-1939. After leaving the reserve, from 1939 to 1941 he worked as the director of the Kursavsky orphanage in the village of Krasnoyarskoye, Kursavsky district, Stavropol Territory, where his family moved in 1938. He was again drafted into the Red Army in 1941. In the same year he graduated from the courses "Shot". Member of the Great Patriotic War since June 1941. In 1942, the rifle battalion commanded by F. A. Zubalov, on the outskirts of Stalingrad in an unequal and bloody battle, took possession of the Figurnaya height that dominated the area and an important strategically important settlement on the right bank of the Don River - Novaya Kalitva (Voronezh region) , providing a breakthrough for the Soviet troops. The commander of the 3rd rifle battalion of the 184th Guards Rifle Regiment (62nd Guards Rifle Division, 37th Army, Steppe Front) of the Guard, Captain Feofilakt Zubalov, distinguished himself in the battle for the Dnieper. On September 28, 1943, F.A.Zubalov, at the head of the battalion entrusted to him, was the first to cross to the right bank of the Dnieper River and secured the seizure of the dominant heights in the area of ​​the village of Mishurin Rog of the Verkhnedneprovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. Within four days, the battalion of the guard of Captain Zubalov repulsed more than fifteen counterattacks by Hitler's infantry, supported by the SS Panzer Division "Dead Head", destroying 15 tanks and 6 enemy vehicles. The line was held. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 20, 1943, for the exemplary performance of the combat missions of the command on the front of the struggle against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism of the guards shown at the same time, Captain Zubalov Feofilakt Andreevich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal ". In 1944, F. A. Zubalov graduated from the accelerated course of the M. V. Frunze Military Academy. After the war, Major F.A. Zubalov was in reserve. He graduated from the All-Union School for the Training of State Farm Directors, and in 1951 - the Pedagogical Institute in the city of Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Territory. He worked in various administrative and economic positions in Kabardino-Balkaria, Georgia. He also worked as director of the Essentuksky fattening state farm in the Stavropol Territory. Buried in the cemetery of the city of Essentuki. An obelisk is installed on the grave.