[3][4][5][6] He is held in high regard in Uzbekistan and is credited as one of the artists who kept the tradition of Uzbek miniatures alive.

[4] Akhmarov enrolled in the Perm School of Fine Arts in 1927, the same year his family moved to Qarshi, Uzbekistan for his father's health.

[11][3][2][9][4] In Samarkand, Akhmarov taught drawing and painting at a newly opened art school and wrote for magazines including Mushtum and Mashal.

While there, he received assignments to illustrate novels including Holy Blood by Oybek, Childhood by Gairatiy, Mirage by Abdulla Qahhor and Li Chuv by Sh.

[11] In 1942, the institute temporarily relocated to Samarkand, where Akhmarov graduated, before returning to its original location in Moscow the following year.

They were completed in 1947 and the artists who worked on the project, including Akhmarov, received the Stalin prize, 1st class.