She worked at Kazan State Pedagogical Institute from 1948 until her retirement in 2003 and authored approximately 420 scientific articles that included textbooks on Russian language teaching methology, teaching methods and manuals for students and teachers at universities.
[3] Shakirova graduated from high school in Ufa in 1939,[2] and enrolled at Bashkir State University in the same year, studying at its Faculty of Russian Language and Literature.
In 1944, she became the university's first graduate student in the "Methods of the Russian language in the national school" field at the Research Institute of Teaching Methods of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the RSFSR under the supervision of the professor V. M. Chistyakov and the academic N. K.
[4][6][5] She established the scientific Kazan Linguo-Methodological School that has gained students from the Tatarstan, parts of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
[3] In 1971, Shakirova was awarded the Order of Lenin,[5] and was made an Honored Scientist of the RSFSR [cv; pl; ru; uk; zh] on 23 April 1981.