Azerbaijan remembers Zarifa Aliyeva

Today is the birth date of the outstanding Azerbaijani scientist and ophthalmologist, academician Zarifa Aliyeva.

Her activities and merits left a significant mark in the history of public health. She was the daughter of a prominent statesman, Aziz Aliyev, the wife of Heydar Aliyev and the mother of current President Ilham Aliyev, Vesti.az reports.

She was born in the village of Shahtakhty in Nakhchyvan. In 1942 Zarifa entered the Treatment and Prophylaxis Faculty of the Azerbaijan State Medical Institute, from which she graduated in 1947. In 1967 Zarifa Aliyeva was invited to the office of lecturer in the Eye Diseases Department at the Azerbaijan State Doctors Improvement Institute. This institute was named after her father Aziz Mammad kerim Aliyev, a professor who led the department in the last years of his life.

From 1983 she was chief of the Ophthalmology Department. She was awarded orders and medals, also the title of Honorary Figure of Science of Azerbaijan.

Zarifa Aliyeva died on April 15, 1985 in Moscow.