In 1946, she went on to study linguistics as an aspirant (graduate student) under Arnold Chikobava at Tbilisi State University, defending her candidate's thesis in 1949.
The linguistic materials for her pioneering and still unsurpassed descriptions of Akhvakh and Karata were collected personally during extensive field trips in the 1940s and 1950s.
From 1952 until her death in 1999 she held a position as a Senior Research Fellow at the Georgian Academy of Sciences,[1] additionally teaching as a professor at the Tbilisi Theatrical Institute from 1967 to 1982.
[7] On 17 December 1999, the Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics of the Georgian Academy of Sciences held a Public Session dedicated to her memory.
[8] In 2012, the Third International Scientific Conference in Makhachkala dedicated the publication of its Caucasian linguistic presentations to her and her husband's memory.