Azerbaijan commemorates the anniversary of academician Zarifa Aliyeva

Today Azerbaijan is celebrating the 90th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Azerbaijani scientist ophthalmologist and academician Zarifa Aliyeva, the wife of the national leader Heydar Aliyev and the mother of the current president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.
Zarifa Aliyeva was an Azerbaijani ophthalmologist, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan and professor. Zarifa Aliyeva is the author of 14 monographs and hundreds of research papers, along with 12 rationalization proposals. Her father was Aziz Aliyev – People’s Commissar of Public Health Services of the Azerbaijan SSR, later the first secretary of the Communist Party’s oblast committee of Dagestan. Zarifa Aliyeva was the third president of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev’s wife and the fourth president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev’s mother. Mostt of Zarifa Aliyeva’s activity was related to the Azerbaijan State Institute of Advanced Medical Studies.