After graduating from college in Baku, he entered the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, where he was admitted in the class of sculptor and pedagogue professor Iakob Nikoladze (1976–1951), in 1934.

The bas-relief portrait of Shota Rustaveli and the sculptural figure of young Stalin were among his works created in that period.

The statues Kolkhoz farmer, Vagif, the bas-relief sketch Farhad, cleaving the Bisutun rock,[2] the project of Nizami's monument, portraits of Stalin, Dzhaparidze and Fioletov – all these works are related to pre-wartime period.

Portraits of Bulbul, Rashid Behbudov, Jahangir Jahangirov, Khurshidbanu Natavan, Mirza Alakbar Sabir and Niyazi are considered the best creations of the sculptor.

The sculptor thoroughly researched the approaches of Nikolay Andreyev, Sergey Merkurov and Matvey Manizer, who created the best sculptures of Lenin in the Soviet Union.

The most significant works of the sculptor, created in the 1970s, were dedicated to participants of October Revolution and the Great Patriotic War.