In 1921, Mirvarid moved to Baku and got admitted to the newly established Female Boarding School.

After six years of studying, Mirvarid started teaching at elementary school in Bilajari.

Upon graduation from Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute, she moved to Guba and continued teaching there.

Girls were not taught to write; a few of them had managed to learn how to read a bit of the Quran, which was published in the Arabic script.

I must tell you, however, that as far as Azerbaijan was concerned, only women living in the southern regions near the Iranian border and some in Baku wore them.

If parents didn't send their children to school-both boys and girls-they were held accountable.

I guess under such circumstances, I should consider myself one of the lucky ones to be born in an era where I was exposed in my youth to all three alphabets-Arabic, Cyrillic and Latin.

[8] Mirvarid's cousin, Amina Dilbazi, was a well-known Azeri ballet-master and folk-music dancer.