[4] She studied with the sculptor Stepan Erzya[2] who taught Mammadova many techniques in the field of technology and ancillary work.

As Mamedova later communicated to the art critic D. Novruzova, Erzya told her:[2] “To be a sculptor, one must be a carpenter, a locksmith, and a blacksmith… An artist should not depend on workers”.

Sometime after graduating from high school, Zivar Mammadova worked in the workshops of Stepan Erzya and Pinkhos Sabsay.

In the period from 1930 to 1940, she created portrait busts of such famous personalities as Azim Azimzade, Huseyngulu Sarabski, Mashadi Azizbeyov, Idris Suleymanov, Huseynbala Aliyev, Basti Bagirova and others.

She played the violin in the State Symphony Orchestra, founded and directed by Uzeyir Hajibeyov in 1922, and was one of the main performers of the operetta "Arshin Mal Alan" in 1923.