[4] When the Great Patriotic War broke out in 1941, she and her family were evacuated to the Eastwards to the village of Kül Çerkene [ce; ru; tt] in the Buinsky District, Tatarstan.
[2][3] Karimova was assigned to work with the Nimnyr party at the Fedorovsky mica deposit in the village of Snezhny [ba; ce; ru; tt] until 1955 and the site's inaccessibility meant she had to enter it by foot and followed carts carrying explosives for 47 km (29 mi).
[4] From 1955 to 1968, Karimova worked at the South Yakutsk complex expedition as a senior geologist of coal exploration and thematic parties and was the leader of its geological department.
[1] Her role entailed the thorough study and demonstrate to the State Commission for Mineral Reserves [ru] that the Neryungri coal deposit had high potential.
[4][6] Karimova was the author, co-author and editor of more than 20 printed articles on geology and the South Yakutsk coal basin's development that received the State Committee's approval.
[4] On 10 March 1976, Karimova was given the title of Hero of Socialist Labour with the Order of Lenin and the "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal [az; ba; be; ka; pl; ru; tr; tt; uk] "for the outstanding success achieved in fulfilling the tasks of the ninth five-year plan and socialist obligations to increase the explored reserves of minerals and improve the efficiency of geological exploration.
"[4] In 1982, she was awarded the USSR State Prize "for the creation of the coal mineral resource base of the South Yakutsk Territorial Production Complex.