Ramiz Firudin oglu Tahirov was born on 16 April 1966, in Ordzhonikidze, the capital of the North Ossetian ASSR, which was then part of the RSFSR, Soviet Union.

He graduated from the Military Lyceum named after Jamshid Nakchivanski in 1983.

Later, Tahirov continued his education at the Kiev Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile Engineering School and was graduated in 1988.

From 1988 to 1992, he served in the Soviet Armed Forces at the Vasilevsky Military Academy of Army Air Defence Forces and in the military representation of the USSR.

In 2002–2013, he worked as Deputy Assistant to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan for defence issues.