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Place of Birth: Zangibasar district, Armenian Republic
Date of Birth: 23.02.1928
Education: Geographer, Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University, Baku, Azerbaijan
Scientific degree: Doctor of Geography
Title: Professor
Speciality code and title for doctoral dissertation: 11.00.04 – Geomorphology
Date of Election as a correspondent member and speciality: 1976, Geomorphology
Date of Election as Academician of the National Academy of Sciences: 1988, Geomorphology
Total number of scientific publications: 700, 48 monograph
Number of scientific publications printed abroad: 71
Main scientific achievements:

Systematization of geographical space and natural-destructive phenomena; studies of geomorphology, latest tectonic movements and ancient glaciation of the Azerbaijan part of the Major Caucasus Chain and compiling of appropriate map scaled to 1:200000; definition for the first time of upper-sarmat marine fauna; studies of natural and anthropogenic landscape of Azerbaijan, the factors of desertification, as well as geochemistry of landscape; compiling of map (1:500000) of eco-geographical division into zones of the territory of the Azerbaijan Republic; identification through studies of aerospace photo images of regularities of morphological structure and differentiation of landscape of the eastern part of the Major and Minor Caucasus Chains; study of Turkish toponyms in the Eastern Europe and Asia; study for the first time of Azerbaijani toponyms in Armenia and Georgia.

Prepared:
Candidates of Sciences: 50
Doctors of Sciences: 4
Titles of main five scientific publications:
  1. Geomorphology and latest tectonics of the South-East Caucasus. Baku, 1973, 256p.
  2. Modern Natural Landscapes of Azerbaijan. Baku, "Elm", 1988, 135p.
  3. Explanatory Dictionary of Azerbaijanian Toponyms in Armenia. Baku, "Oguz Eli", 1988, 452p.
  4. Mighty Vulnerable Nature. Baku, 1990, 120p.
  5. Turkish Toponyms of Eurasia. Baku, 1988, 247p.
Membership with international and foreign scientific organizations:

Member of Academic Council of International Association of Academies of Sciences (IAAS) on fundamental problems of geography; Member of editorial board of the journal "Geomorphology" (Moscow); Full member of the Modern International Academy of Sciences named after Lutvi-Zade; Member of editorial board of the international journal "Problems of development of deserts", Ashgabad, Ylym, Turkmenistan.

Educational activity:

Professor, Department of Geography, Lenkaran State University, Lenkaran, Azerbaijan Republic; Vice-Rector of the Azerbaijan Higher Social-Political College; Professor, Faculty of Geography, Baku State University.

Position: Director, Institute of Geography, ANAS
Place of work and its address: Institute of Geography of ANAS, 31, Huseyn Javid Pr., Baku-Az1143, Azerbaijan Republic
Office phone: (994 12) 5382900
Home phone: (994 12) 4617989
Fax: (994 12) 5393541
E-mail: azgeog@lan.ab.az