The honored scientist of Azerbaijani Republic,
doctor of medical sciences and academician of
Azerbaijani Scientific Academy Zarifa Aliyeva
Aziz was born on the 28th of April
in 1923 in Shahtakhti village of Sharur region.
She was Aziz Aliyev’s daughter and Haydar Aliyev’s
wife. She graduated from Azerbaijan State Medical
Institute (present Medical University) (1947). She
worked as a scientific worker at Azerbaijani
Scientific-Research Institute of Ophthalmology,
senior lecturer, and professor of the Eyes
diseases chair, head of the laboratory of vacation
pathology of eye organs and head of the chair of
Ophthalmology at Azerbaijani Doctors Improvement
Institute named after (1982-1985). Z. Aliyeva did
exceptional things in the development of the
science of ophthalmology. She is the author of a
lot of capacious researches on the analyze of
trachoma widespread in Azerbaijan, the top
vocational diseases in the world, especially eye
diseases connected with the vocational activities
in chemical an electron industries, of its
prevention and treatment and the modern problems
of ophthalmology, as well as one of the authors of
the unique scientific works “Therapeutic
ophthalmology” and “The principals of
iridodiagnosis”. She wrote 12 monographs, manuals,
about 150 scientific works, one invention and 12
rationalization proposals. Zarifa Aliyeva did many
things in the training high-qualified medical
staff. She was a member of the Presidium of the
All-Union Ophthalmologists society, Soviet Peace
Defense Committee, the Executive Board of the
Azerbaijani Ophthalmologic Society and the
editorial staff of “The Vestnik ophthalmologu”
magazine (Moscow). She was awarded with the price
of M.I. Averbach of the Medical Scientific Academy
of the USSR (1981). Z.Aliyeva died on the 15th
of April in 1985 in Moscow. Her corpse was brought
from Novo-Devichya cemetery in Moscow to Baku and
was buried in Fakhri Khiyaban (Honored Avenue)
near her father’s grave. A bronze monument was
erected on her grave. Z.Aliyeva’s name has been
given to the Eye Diseases Institute in Baku,
Nakhchivan city policlinic and a street in
Nakhchivan. A recreation park named Z.Aliyeva has
been laid out in Binagadi district of Baku.
Ajami’s creative activity strongly affected the architecture of
Azerbaijan and the Middle East countries – Ajami’s traditions
live in Blue dome in Maghara (1196), Gulustan bome near
Nakhchivan (XIII), Garabaglar dome (XII-XIV), Berda and Selma
domes (XIV) and in the tombs built by Turkish architect Sinan in
Istanbul. During the construction of the monument on Nizami’s
grave in Ganja the style of Ajami was used and the monument was
built with the spirit of Ajami genius.
“One-tenth of the century” novel by H.Ibrahimov and “He was the
son of our mountains” play by Kemale was devoted to Ajami. His
850 years anniversary was celebrated on a large scale in 1976.
Ajami Nakhchivanski’s bust was opened in Nakhchivan
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