He received his primary education at Maktab-i Tarbiyya school in Nakhchivan, where he learned Russian, Persian and Arabic languages.

In 1910 he left for Tiflis where he studied at a School of Commerce and joined an amateur actors' club at Shaitan Bazaar.

[1] Constantly travelling between Nakhchivan, Tiflis and Erivan, he often participate in both amateur and professional theatre activities in all of the three cities.

However Tahmasib's celebrated masterpiece is considered to be the musical comedy Arshin mal alan ("The Cloth Peddler", 1945), which was a screen adaptation of Uzeyir Hajibeyov's operetta of the same name, composed in 1913.

[3] His other films include Bakinin ishiglari ("The Lights of Baku", 1950, in which Tahmasib himself starred), Mahni bela yaranir ("A Song Is Created Thus", 1959) and Onu baghishlamag olarmi?