 Mammadbeyova was trained as a professional aviator at the Baku Airclub and performed her first flight in 1931.She continued her education at an aviators school in Moscow in 1932.On 17 March 1933, Mammadbeyova became the second woman parachutist in the Soviet Union (after Nina Kamneva) having jumped from a Polikarpov Po-2 aeroplane at Moscow's Tushino Airfield.