Later he studied at Leningrad Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin in 1947-1953.

A deliberate search for an individual artistic vision, original visual means, synthesized subsequently into an original, deeply emotional style, led Nadir Abdurrahmanov to create such works as “The Arrest of 26 Baku Commissars”, “Lenin's Word” (1953), “Mournful News” (1958), “Industrial Landscape” (1954), “In the Highlands” (1957), “Morning in the Mountains” (1957), “Fresh Number of "Kirpi"” (1958).

Abdurrahmanov also went on creative trips to France, Italy, Norway, Bulgaria, North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries.

In the landscapes, portraits, sketches and drawings, the unique originality of the “country of morning freshness”, the beauty of its nature, the life of ordinary people of Korea, engaged in creative work for of the new society, were embodied.

The search for the courageously harsh, monumental language in painting was reflected in such canvases as “Constructions of the seven-year plan” and “Builders of Ali-Bayramli State District Power Station” and others.

[4] The paintings and drawings of the Iraq-Afghanistan series were created by Abdurrahmanov recently on the impressions of a trip to these friendly countries and have become a new page in the creative biography of the Azerbaijani artist.

The harmony of lines and colours with particular poetry is expressed in such works as “Orange Grove”, “Mosul”, “Street in Baghdad”, “Sunny Day”, “Girl with Donkeys”, “Ghazni”, “Street in Kabul”, “Students from Kabul”,“ Afghans”,“ Seller of pottery”, “Portrait of the Artist Farad”, etc.