She was born on 15 July 1912 in Bashkortostan to a family of Tatar origin. After school in 1928, she went to harvest cotton in Uzbekistan. In Bataisk, where she then worked as a telegraph operator, she enrolled in the pilot school of the aeroclub, but after a year had to discontinue the courses for administrative reasons. She finished her pilot school at the aeroclub in Tbilisi, where she was an instructor for civil aviation pilots from 1933.
From the first day of the war Maguba applied to the front, but was not accepted on the grounds that flight instructors were more needed in the courses and so she initially commanded only a squadron of ambulance planes in Transcaucasia. It was only after she wrote to the commander of the 4th Air Army North Caucasus Front, Colonel-General Vershinin, that she was recruited to the 46th Air Force in December 1942. GvNBAP as deputy commander of the squadron. She then flew 780 combat sorties as part of the squadron and flew a combat route from the North Caucasus to Berlin. During the battles of Kerch and Novorossiysk she was awarded the Order of the Red Star.
After the war she transferred to the reserve and returned to Bashkortostan to her parents. Later she married and raised her children. She died in Kazan on 1 October 1971.
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