Sabira Pokidova is a philologist by education, but she found her calling in embroidery. After graduating from the university, she began to study gold embroidery with Hatice Yunusova, and she got acquainted with the history of the Crimean Tatar ornament at the lectures of Mamut Churlu. Sabira-khanum began to work on creating variations of traditional Crimean Tatar embroidery in modern products.