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5 unusual facts about Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences


Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

During its first year, the Academy numbered 15 members; Uzeyir Hajibeyov and Samad Vurgun among them.

Baku Zoo

A working group, which includes specialists from different research institutes and NPO’s, is created in the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources and Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.

Rafael Allahverdiyev

He had graduated from Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences in 1974 and from Western University in 1994 with a degree in Management.

Tofig Abbasguliyev

He worked at the Institute of Eastern Studies and for the English language department within the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.

Yagutil Mishiev

Soon, scholars of Dagestan, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences started to inquire on various issues related to the museum.


Aida Imanguliyeva

In 1966, after defence of dissertation, Aida Imanguliyeva began to work at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan-junior researcher (1966), senior researcher (1973), head of Arabic philology department (1976), deputy director for research works (1988).

Farida Mammadova

In her research, she is known to be a disciple of the late Azerbaijani historian and the former vice-president of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Ziya Bunyadov.

Şahtaxtı

Zarifa Aliyeva — ophthalmologist, academician of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, professor; daughter of the People's Commissar of Health of Azerbaijan SSR, First Secretary of the Dagestan Regional Committee of the Communist Party, Aziz Aliyev, wife of the President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev and the mother of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.


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