Gunsen Ayusheevna Tsydenova was born in May 1909 in the village of Ust-Orot, then part of the Transbaikal Oblast of the Russian Empire.

[7] In 1939, she was a named a people's assessor of the Supreme Court of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

[8] On 12 April 1941, Tsydenova was elected chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Buryat-Mongol ASSR [ru].

Tsydenova was responsible for the rationing of food and supplies and traveled to rural areas, where she "informed and talked about front-line affairs, and provided constant assistance in organizing the harvest and the delivery of agricultural products to the state".

Following her death, the Republic of Buryatia renamed a street in the village of Kizhinga after Tsydenova and installed a memorial plaque at her home in Ulan-Ude.