Today is the memorial day of Academician Zarifa Aliyeva

Today is the memorial day of the outstanding ophthalmologist scientist, academician Zarifa khanum Aliyeva.

Today marks 41 years since the passing of Zarifa Aliyeva.

Z. Aliyeva passed away on April 15, 1985, in Moscow. In 1994, her remains were transferred from the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow to Baku and buried at the Alley of Honorable Burial near her father's grave.

Zarifa Aziz gizi Aliyeva was born on April 28, 1923, in the Sharur district of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.

In 1947, she graduated from the Azerbaijan State Medical Institute named after N. Narimanov. Z. Aliyeva was a research fellow at the Azerbaijan Scientific Research Institute of Eye Diseases, and from 1969, an associate professor at the Department of Eye Diseases at the Azerbaijan Institute for Advanced Medical Training named after A. Aliyev, a professor, head of the laboratory of occupational diseases of the visual organs, and head of the Department of Ophthalmology (1982-1985).

Zarifa Aliyeva has outstanding contributions to the development of ophthalmology in Azerbaijan. She is one of the authors of many major studies devoted to trachoma, which was previously widespread in Azerbaijan, occupational diseases of the visual organs, including those in the chemical and electronics industries, as well as modern problems of ophthalmology, in particular, the scientific works "Therapeutic Ophthalmology," "Fundamentals of Iridodiagnosis," the author of 12 monographs, textbooks and teaching aids, 150 scientific papers, 1 invention, and 12 rationalization proposals. She invested considerable effort in training highly qualified medical professionals.

Academician Zarifa Aliyeva was a member of the Presidium of the All-Union Society of Ophthalmologists, the Soviet Committee for the Defense of Peace, the board of the Azerbaijan Society of Ophthalmology, and a member of the editorial board of the journal "Vestnik Oftalmologii" (Moscow).

For her outstanding scientific achievements, in 1981 she was awarded the M.I. Averbakh Prize of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR.