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Gullu Mustafayeva
Gullu Haji Naim Mustafa gizi Mustafayeva ( az, Güllü Hacı Naim Mustafa qızı Mustafayeva, November 29, 1919 — May 18, 1994) was a Soviet Azerbaijani artist and portrait painter. She was awarded the title of People's Artist of Azerbaijan. Biography Gullu Mustafayeva was born on November 29, 1919, in Charjuy (now Türkmenabat), Turkestan ASSR (now Turkmenistan). She was originally from Shamakhi. In 1927 she moved with her family from Turkmenia to Baku, Old City. Mustafayeva graduated from Azerbaijan State Art College in 1938. Mustafayeva created portraits of labor heroes, figures of science and art of her time. Some of these are the portraits of the two-time Hero of Socialist Labor Basti Bagirova, ophthalmologist, doctor of medical sciences Umnisa Musabayova, neurologist, doctor of medical sciences Zahra Salayeva, people's artist Sattar Bahlulzade. In Mustafayeva's works, children's portraits form a special series, the "our children" series. The portrait "Mahsati Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Türkmenabat
Türkmenabat ( tk, Türkmenabat, Түркменабат), formerly and since medieval times Chardzhou, (russian: Чарджоу, ''Chardzhou''; tk, Çärjew, links=no, ) ( fa, چهارجوی 'čahârjuy', meaning 'four brooks') and in ancient times Āmul, is the second-largest city in Turkmenistan and the capital of Lebap Province. , it had a population of approximately 254,000 people (up from 161,000 in the 1989 census). From 1924 to 1927 it was briefly renamed Leninsk in honor of Vladimir Lenin. Etymology The former name of the city, Çärjew (also Chardzhou), is a Turkmen borrowing from the Persian ''čahârjuy'', which consists of two parts: ''čahâr'', meaning "four", and ''juy'', meaning "brook". This type of naming is also common in Iran, such as the village Se Juy (literally 'three brooks'). The current name of the city is simply a combining of '' Türkmen'' and the Persian suffix '' ābād (آباد)'', meaning "cultivated place" (village, city, region). Geography T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azerbaijan State Art College
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia ( Republic of Dagestan) to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to the west, and Iran to the south. Baku is the capital and largest city. The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic proclaimed its independence from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in 1918 and became the first secular democratic Muslim-majority state. In 1920, the country was incorporated into the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan SSR. The modern Republic of Azerbaijan proclaimed its independence on 30 August 1991, shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the same year. In September 1991, the ethnic Armenian majority of the Nagorno-Karabakh region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |