MakSim rose to fame in the Russian-speaking world in the mid-2000s after releasing her debut album Trudnyi vozrast in 2006.

She went on to release a string of successful singles afterwards, including "Moy ray", "Znayesh li ty" and "Vetrom stat'", which all topped the TopHit radio charts.

She had participated in several music competitions in her schools prior,[6] but then decided to become the lead singer of the Kazan group Pro-Z.

In 2003, Maksimova recorded her first independent song "Trudnyi vozrast" with the members of Pro-Z, which did not receive much radio attention.

For eight days, she slept in a train station before she met her future roommate, with whom she rented a one-room apartment for the course of six years.

[8] In 2005, Maksimova signed a deal with Gala Records and re-released her song "Trudnyi vozrast", then breaking through in the Russian music industry, subsequently releasing an eponymous album a year later.

At the Muz-TV Awards, MakSim won the nomination Discovery of the Year and Best Ringtone for her song "Nezhnost'".

[4] On 22 March 2008, MakSim became one of the few Russian pop artists to have performed at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow with a solo concert.

[9] In late 2016, MakSim got recognised with the title Honoured Artist of Tatarstan, her home region in Russia.

In June 2021 during a concert in her home city Kazan, the singer fell ill with symptoms of COVID-19, however a PCR-based test gave a negative result on three different occasions.

[15] Her condition quickly deteriorated there and she was moved to an intensive care unit, where she was held in an artificial coma,[16] from 19 June until 3 August.