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The first woman to become a “distinguished architect” of Azerbaijan, Shafiga Zeynalova had worked on several landmark projects in Baku, including the celebrated Party Archive complex, between the 1940s and the late 1970s.
Since the late 1970s, Abdullayeva, has built a successful pedagogical, scholarly, and administrative career at Azerbaijan Institute of Engineering and Construction.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Akhundova was a frequent collaborator of Azerbaijan’s celebrated architect Mikayil Useynov, later heading the workshop for architectural planning at AzerDovlatLayiha.
Firuza Aslanova is a water and sewage infrastructure engineer who worked at BakiDovlatLayiha for more than half a century, rising to become a senior specialist.
Berg, who came from a German family (Baku was the home to many descendants of German immigrants to the Russian Empire), was a faculty member (senior lecturer) at the chair of fine art at Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute in the 1960s and -70s.
Upon graduating from Moscow Institute of Architecture in 1954, Efendizade returned to her native Baku, where she worked at AzerDovlatLayiha before embarking on an academic career at the Institute of Architecture and Art, Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences.
One of the pioneers of industrial design in the Soviet Union, Izzet Gayibova founded the first Special Artistic-Construction Office of industrial design in Baku in the 1960s.
Guliyeva made her name as a designer of sports structures, including the buildings of Baku Olympic Center and the velodrome in Baku.
Gulchohra Mammadova works as an architect and also as a full professor and rector at the Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction.
An electric engineer, Larisa Hamzayeva worked on technical documentation of the projects at Azgospromproekt and at BakiDovlatLayiha, where she became a senior specialist.
Having graduated from in 1978, Ismayilova worked as architect at the Main Architectural Planning Department of the city of Baku. Between 1984 and 1995, she was the chief architect of BakiDovlatLayiha.
Faina Leontyeva is known as the architect of the Baku circus building (with E. Ismaylov), finished in 1967. She was also recognized as a talented painter.
Shafiyeva was a Baku-based architect who between the 1960s and the early 1980s designed buildings for Baku, Naftalan, and other places in Azerbaijan and beyond.
Trained in Azerbaijan and Poland, Muradkhanova worked as an architecture theorist and as an architectural preservationist. Later she became professor of architectural design and urbanism in Azerbaijan.
Oltetsian spent her career in the workshop of the luminary of Azerbaijan architecture Mikael Useynov, with whom she designed several iconic buildings in Baku, including hotels Azerbaijan, Absheron, and Moskva.
Born into a Polysh family in Ukraine, Irena Orlova-Stroganova worked in Baku from the 1950s on, contributing to the design of both such architectural icons as the Pearl cafe and standardized housing.
Working at BakiDovlatLayiha in the 1970s, Rustambeyova participated in the design of several iconic late-Soviet buildings and open spaces in Baku, receiving the title of a distinguished architect of Azerbaijan.
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Aurora Salamova made her name as an architect at AzerDovlatLayiha, where she designed buildings for Baku, Sumqayıt, and Iran, before moving to historic preservation.
A rare woman in the position of power in Soviet architecture, Seyidova, who was married to a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, rose to become the head of BakiDovlatLayiha.
Ritta Tripolskaya worked as an architect at Azgospromproekt, where she remained for her entire career, working on both architectural design and urban planning commissions for industrial objects in Azerbaijan and other republics.
The first woman to become a “distinguished architect” of Azerbaijan, Shafiga Zeynalova had worked on several landmark projects in Baku, including the celebrated Party Archive complex, between the 1940s and the late 1970s.
Between the 1970s and the 1990s, Veronika Tripolskaya practiced architecture in Azerbaijan before moving to Kaliningrad (Russia) and later to the Arctic archipelago Novaya Zemlya and subsequently to Zelenograd near Moscow.
Between 1943 and 1948 she studied architecture at Azerbaijan Industrial Institute, graduating with distinction. Later she worked as an architect in different offices.
In addition to the architects profiled above, many other women-architects worked in Azerbaijan. Limited information is available on some of them.
