Was born in Baku. In 2001 he graduated from MGHI them. V. I. Surikov, where he studied with professors M. Abakumov G. and S. I. Smirnov. Since 2005, the scholarship of Creative workshops of the Russian Academy of Arts. Elmira Petrova became one of the few women artists taken part in Creative workshops, where her mentors are people's Artists of the USSR, the brothers Sergey and Alexey Tkachev. Wide fame Elmira Petrova took part in the exhibition "60 years of Victory", held in 2005 in the Central house of artists in Moscow. Her work on the military theme made a great impression on the viewer. One of them was published in the catalogue of the exhibition along with paintings of recognized masters of Russian painting. Solo exhibition Petrova was held in 2003 in Ulyanovsk and in 2006 in Moscow.
