Mizgireva was born in
Tashkent in 1908. Her family stems from the village of
Garrygala in southwest Turkmenistan. As a child, she exhibited interest in painting, and attended the experimental UShIV school for young talents in
Ashgabat. Alexander Vladychik, the director of the school, would become her husband. Her art was based on the traditional Turkmen motifs, painted in bright colors. In 1934, she received a commission for illustration of species collection of tulips by academician
Nikolai Vavilov, on an order from the Netherlands. The work included several thousands of drawings. She returned to her home area of Garrygala, and started working as a laboratory technician in the Turkmenistan Research Station of the Federal Institute of Agriculture. Mizgireva is credited with the 1938 discovery of
Turkmenian mandrake,
Mandragora turcomanica, rare species of
mandrake from the Kopet-Dag area. ==References==