Famous people of Azerbaijan in the world

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Faculty –İTİF
Specialization – Computer
Science
Subject name - English
Group – 604.23E
Teacher – Ehmedova
Gulnara
Student –Zulfiyye Recebova
Topic – Famous People of
Azerbaijan In The World

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FAMOUS
PEOPLE OF
AZERBAIJAN
IN THE
WORLD

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Leyla
Memmedbeyova

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Leyla Mammadbeyova was the
first Azerbaijani female aviator.She also
was the first female pilot
of Transcaucasia, of Southern Europe and
of Southwest Asia.
Mammadbeyova's father Alasgar Zeynalov
was the cousin of one of Azerbaijan's pioneer
film actors, Huseyn Arablinski. Her family
was arts-oriented, and as a teenager she
could play the piano and the tar. At age 14,
she married former landowner Bahram
Mammadbeyov of Kurdakhany, who would
go on to become chief of the Professional
Unions Bank in Baku.

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Mammadbeyova was trained as a professional
aviator at the Baku Airclub and performed her
first flight in 1931. She continued her education
at an aviators school in Moscow in 1932. On 17
March 1933, Mammadbeyova became the
second woman parachutist in the Soviet
Union (after Nina Kamneva) having jumped
from a Polikarpov Po-2 aeroplane at
Moscow's Tushino Airfield. In 1934 she won
the parachute jump competition held among
representatives of the South Caucasus nations.
By 1941 she was Squadron Leader of the Soviet
Army.

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Mammadbeyova continued her career as a pilot and instructor at the Baku Airclub. She
was refused to fight in World War II as at the time she was raising four children (she had
six overall). Despite the Baku Airclub closing down due to war conditions,
Mammadbeyova managed to launch glider and parachutist courses of her own, where she
trained hundreds of combat pilots and around 4,000 paratroopers. Two of her students
later became Heroes of the Soviet Union. Mammadbeyova performed her last flight in
1949 and worked as Vice-Chair of the DOSAAF's Baku branch until 1961.
Leyla Mammadbeyova became a living icon while still in her twenties. Her courage and
skills were celebrated through media and the arts. Her character inspired the literary
works of Mikayil Mushfig and Samad Vurgun , as well as the movie Ismat . In the latter,
Mammadbeyova appeared as a stuntwoman, having performed in plane operating
scenes. In 1995 a documentary on Mammadbeyova's life and career entitled Leyla and
directed by Nazim Rza Israfiloglu was released by Azerbaijantelefilm.

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Zuleikha
Seyidmammadova

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Zuleikha Seyidmammadova - the first
Azerbaijani female military pilot, statesman of
the Azerbaijan SSR, participant of the Second
World War. Zuleikha Seyidmammadova was
the first Azerbaijani to be admitted to the Air
Force Academy named after Zhukovsky. He
took part in the Second World War and was
the navigator of the 586th fighter aviation
regiment, created by Marina Raskova.
Participating in Stalingrad, Kursk, KorsunSevchenkovsky battles, Seyidmammadova
made 500 sorties and shot down several
German planes.

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Seyidmammadova was a deputy of the II, VI, VII and
VIII convocations of the Supreme Soviet of the
Azerbaijan SSR. In 1946-1951, he served as the
secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist
Youth Union of Azerbaijan, in 1952-1974, the minister
of social security of the Azerbaijan SSR, and from 1975,
he served as the deputy chairman of the Presidium of
the Society of Friendship and Cultural Relations with
Foreign Countries. Zuleykha Seyidmammadova was
awarded the Order of "Lenin", 2nd degree "Patriotic
War", 2nd "Red Banner of Labor" and 2nd "Badge of
Honor". On March 8, 1960, the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet and the Council of Ministers of the
USSR International Women A party was held in honor
of the 50th anniversary of the day, and
Seyidmammadova led a delegation of Azerbaijani
women. She was awarded the Order of Lenin at this
event.

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At that time, Zuleykha Seyidmammadova was elected
as a deputy of the 6th (1965) and 7th (1968)
convocations of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan
SSR, as an authorized representative of Soviet
Azerbaijan in many countries of the world, including
Egypt. , Turkey, Romania and the second time in
India. In 1966, when she was in India as the head of
the women's delegation, she met Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi, the daughter of the statesman of the
Indian people, Jawaharlal Nehru. He adopted his
brother Kamal's daughter Gulara.
Seyidmammadova's younger brother Khalil died at
the age of 39, and Seyidmammadova raised his son
Jamil as her own child. Zuleykha Seyidmammadova
died on November 10, 1994 and was buried in
Shuvalan according to her will.

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03.
Zemfira
Meftahatdinova

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Zemfira Meftahatdinova — a stand-up shooter who
played for the USSR national team in 1986-1991,
and the Azerbaijani national team in 1991-2014,
USSR master of sports of international rank,
honored physical education and sports figure of the
Republic of Azerbaijan, head of the Sports Society of
the Ministry of Internal Affairs , vice-president of
the Azerbaijan Shooting Federation and vicepresident of the Azerbaijan National Olympic
Committee.Zemfira Meftahatdinova is the first
Azerbaijani athlete to win the Olympic Games.
Zemfira Meftahatdinova, who won the gold medal of
the XXVII Summer Olympic Games held in Sydney
(Australia) in 2000, four years later, won the bronze
medal of the XXVIII Summer Olympic Games held
in Athens (Greece) in 2004.During her career,
Zemfira Meftahatdinova achieved many successes in
the World and European Championships.

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Zemfira Meftahatdinova was the winner of the
European Shooting Championships in 1993, 1997 and
2003. In the team tournaments, in 1987 and 1990, he
won the gold medals of the tournament. In total,
Zemfira Meftahatdinova, a five-time European
champion, won the World Championships in 1995 and
2001.Zemfira Meftahatdinova was awarded with the
Order of Honor of the Azerbaijan SSR in 1991
according to the Decree of the President of the
Azerbaijan SSR Ayaz Mutallibov, with the "Progress"
medal in 1995 according to the Decrees of the
President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev, and with the
Order of "Fame" in 2000 for her services in
Azerbaijani sports. , according to the Decree of the
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, he was awarded
the "Progress" medal in 2004, the honorary diploma of
the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2022,
and the "For the Fatherland" medal in 2018 for his
services in internal affairs bodies.

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After completing her career,
Zemfira Meftahatdinova was
appointed to a position in the
internal affairs bodies.
Zemfira Meftahatdinova has
been the head of the Sports
Society of the Ministry of
Internal Affairs since 2015,
and vice-president of the
Azerbaijan National Olympic
Committee since 2021.

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Gamar
Almaszadeh

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Gamar Hajiaga qizi Almaszadeh was
a Soviet and Azerbaijani ballerina and ballet instructor.
She's considered the first ballerina of the Muslim
world. Gamar Almaszadeh (nicknamed Tamara) was
born in Baku to a family of a shoemaker and a midwife,
Hajiaga and Maryam Almaszadeh. She became
interested in ballet at a very young age, when she saw
her friend perform ballet moves. Persuaded by her
friend she signed up for ballet lessons at a private
studio (later reorganized into the Baku School of
Choreography). Gamar's mother approved of her
daughter's new interest but her father Hajiaga
Almaszadeh, a conservative Muslim, had to be misled
into believing that Gamar was attending gym in order
to have him pay for her lessons. The secret was soon
revealed and, as expected, Gamar's father did not come
around to her choice. However he was reported to have
secretly assisted at his daughter's performances later,
when she became a renowned ballerina.

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After graduating from the choreographic school in 1930,
Gamar Almaszadeh began working at the Azerbaijan
State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. To meet her
father's expectations, she also enrolled in a teachers'
college. In 1932, she left for Moscow to continue her
ballet education but soon returned to Baku after being
chosen to perform a secondary role in Reinhold Glière's
opera Shakh-Senem In 1933, she was admitted to a
professional ballet school in Saint Petersburg, where she
had Maria Romanova-Ulanova as an instructor. In 1936,
she finished her studies and once again returned to Baku.
In 1937, she founded the Azerbaijan State Folk Song and
Dance Ensemble affiliated with the Azerbaijan State
Philharmonic Society. Guided by composer Uzeyir
Hajibeyov, she organized research expeditions to various
parts of Azerbaijan to film and document folk dance
performances and to enrich the repertoire of her ensemble
as well as to propagate them on the big scene.

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In 1939, she taught her first choreography class and
in 1940, made her first biggest performance in the
lead role of Afrasiyab Badalbeyli's Giz Galasi ("The
Maiden Tower").[2] She later became head of the
School of Choreography (one of her students was
prominent Azerbaijani ballerina Leyla Vakilova).
During her career, she toured France, India,
and Nepal. In 1970, she was invited
to Baghdad by Iraq's Ministry of Culture to promote
Iraqi folk dance culture and founded the Iraqi
National Folklore Group. She retired from ballet in
the 1950s, but remained an instructor at the School
of Choreography until the late 1990s.
She married Afrasiyab Badalbeyli in 1931, however
the marriage did not last very long.