Almas Ildyrym

After the Bolsheviks established their power in Azerbaijan in 1920, the fact that Ildyrym had been born into a wealthy merchant family plagued him for the rest of his life.

Though he was accepted to the faculty of Oriental Literature at Azerbaijan State University, it was not long before they dismissed him because of his family origins.

While in exile, he wrote Dağlardan xatirələr ("Memories from the Mountains"), Ləzgi elləri ("Lezgi Lands"), Krımda axşamlar ("Evenings in Crimea"), Səlimxan, and Günah kimdədir?

Two years later, he returned to Baku and published a collection of poems entitled, Dağlar Səslənərkən ("When Mountains Make a Sound", 1930).

He published his poems about his love and longing for his country in the magazines Qurtuluş ("Salvation") in Germany, Çinar altı in Kars, as well as Kok Boru, Organ, Ozlayish and in the Van newspaper in Turkey.