351:. At the meeting, the Transcaucasia team takes first place in terms of landing accuracy. Seyidmammadova was appointed as a parachuting instructor for 50 parachute jumps from an airplane. She returns with honors from the meeting she attended as the first female paratrooper from Transcaucasia, as well as from the Muslim East. The courage of an Eastern Muslim woman to jump with a parachute arouses everyone's astonishment, and Seyidmammadova's activity is marked as an achievement of the Soviet system and widely commented on in the press.
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390:"To Comrade Bagirov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan! “The enemies of the State” want to tarnish my father’s reputation. They gave false information to the Air Force Academy where I am currently studying. I was sent to study here by the republic. I am the only girl among the students. After receiving the necessary information, they will decide whether I can continue to study here or not. Please protect the rights and justice so that they do not receive any false information."
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316:. In early 1934, Zuleykha, who went to the Baku airfield with her fellow students, took to the sky for the first time with the "U-2" plane. After this trip, she and her fellow students decide to form an aero club at the institute. The students succeeded to purchase a U-2 aircraft for the club, as well as three
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Züleykha, who was studying at the academy at the moment, was shocked by sudden news one day. The dean of the faculty called her to his office and informed her that her father was arrested as a spy, and if they confirm this information from Baku, she will be removed from the academy. Zuleykha turns to
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is assigned to train her. One of the eight people in that group is her former physics teacher
Jumshud Efendiyev. While studying the last year of the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute, Seyidmammadova had already flown up to a hundred hours and trained 75 pilots and 80 parachutists in three years as an
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settlement, and the students helped closely in the organization of the area. After long-term training, in
October 1934, Zuleykha Seyidmammadova took off for the first time alone with the "U-2" plane. In late 1934, she graduated from the aero club with honors and received her certificate, thereby
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teacher
Jumshud Efendiyev took them on an excursion to the Baku airport. Zuleykha gets on the plane several times with the boys in the class, looks at everything carefully, and asks countless questions. When she returned home in the evening, she enthusiastically told her mother Mina about this
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Bagirov soon releases her father from prison in order not to damage the reputation of the country, and he is ordered not to talk about it anywhere. Thus, a letter goes to Moscow with the necessary content to
Zuleykha: "It is a lie, Mir Habib Seyidmammadov is at home. Everything is in order."
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January 21, 1936, a ceremonial reception was held in the Kremlin in connection with the fifteenth anniversary of the establishment of Soviet power in Azerbaijan, and Komsomol member Zuleykha Seyidmammadova was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor and a gold watch.
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Seyidmammadova was the only girl among those admitted to the navigation faculty of the academy after taking the test exams. Seyidmammadova was also the first Azerbaijani to be admitted to the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy.
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was also the result of his loyalty to Haji. Zuleykha
Seyidmammadova's mother, Mina Khanim, was uneducated and was married off at the age of 11. Zuleikha was the second daughter born in their marriage.
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with her father's advice. Based on
Zuleikha's request, who was remembered by Bagirov as a "girl thrown into the sea by the wind", the Central Committee officially sends a letter to
277:. Mir Habib, who was a friend of Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev since childhood, was very loyal to Haji, so Haji had great respect for him. Mir Habib Agha's magnificent property in
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jump. Zuleikha, a thin, skinny, black-haired girl, jumps out of a plane with a parachute and the wind throws her into the sea. According to what was said,
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