In 1919, he was invited to head the Ganja government by the republican government of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, but he was soon arrested at the instigation of the Armenian Bolsheviks and sent to Nargin island, where he was executed by Bolshevik soldiers.

[2] Nigar Rafibeyli finished her schooling in Ganja and moved to Baku for her higher education.

Her first poem called "Chadra" (Veil in Azeri) was published in "Dan Ulduzu" magazine in 1928.

Beginning from 1940, she translated into Azeri many works of famous poets and writers of other nations such as Navai, Schiller, Pushkin, Lermontov, Shevchenko and others.

[2] Many of Nigar Rafibeyli's works were dedicated to romanticism, motherhood, nature, and motherland.