Background
Gulgun was born into an Iranian Azeri labourer"s family and finished primary and middle schools in Baku.
Gulgun was born into an Iranian Azeri labourer"s family and finished primary and middle schools in Baku.
In 1938, being considered foreigners due to their Iranian citizenship, her family was forced to leave the Soviet Union and moved to Ardabil, the hometown of Gulgun"s father. Upon graduation Madina Gulgun worked as a knitter at a local factory and a reporter for the Azeri-language newspapers Azerbaijan and Vatan Yolunda. After the fall of the government, she and other prominent Democrats was evacuated to Baku with the help of the Soviet agencies, while her family was sent into exile to Central Iran.
Love and patriotism were the main themes of her poetry.
In the 1940s, she settled in Tabriz becoming a member of the Azerbaijani Democratic Party and got involved in the Soviet-backed Communist movement in Iranian Azerbaijan, which led to the establishment of the short-lived Azerbaijan People"s Government.
