Namig Abdullayev is a retired Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler, who won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, as well as three gold medals at European championships and three silver medals at world championships.
Arif Malikov is an Azerbaijani and Soviet composer. He graduated from the Baku Conservatory as a music composer in 1958. He shot to fame in 1961 when his first major composition "Legend of Love" was staged at the Kirov State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Leningrad and received nationwide acclaim. The ballet has been staged in several countries in Europe and is regarded as one of the finest works emerging from the former Soviet Union. The ballet "Legend of Love", is based upon the legend of "Farhad and Shirin", a story of unrequited love that was immortalized by Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet. Since then, Malikov has written music for two more ballets including "Yer üzündə iki nəfər (balet)" Yer üzündə iki nəfər (balet) (1967) and "Poem of Two Hearts" (1981), five symphonies & eight symphony poems. He has also written scores for a large number of films and plays and is familiar with practically all genres of music composition.
The Azerbaijan Davis Cup team represents Azerbaijan in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Azerbaijan Tennis Federation. They have not competed since 2013.
Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts was founded in 1923 on the basis of the Baku Theatrical College. It is Azerbaijan's main state-funded institution of higher education in performing arts.
İkinci Şıxlı is a village and municipality in the Qazakh Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 3,565.
Arif İsayev is a retired Azerbaijani Footballer who played as an Attacking midfielder in both Azerbaijan and Turkey.
Arif Asadov is a retired Azerbaijani professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Top League in 1988 for Neftchi Baku.
Whole Azerbaijan is an irredentist concept of uniting Azerbaijani-inhabited territories into Azerbaijan.
The State Anthem of the Azerbaijan SSR was the anthem of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic in the former Soviet Union. It was created in 1944 and was used from 1945 to 1992.
Arif Dashdemirov is an Azerbaijani football defender who plays for Sumgayit FK in the Azerbaijan Premier League.
Arif Haji oglu Babayev was an Azerbaijani film director and Honorary Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR (1964).
Arif Abdullayev is an Azerbaijanian wrestler. Abdullayev gained gold medal at the World Championship in 2003 for Freestyle wrestling organized in New York.
Arif Huseynov — Azerbaijani painter, People's Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Honored Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani ballet is the training methods and aesthetic qualities seen in classical ballet in Azerbaijan.
Leyla Islam qizi Yunusova, better known as Leyla Yunus, is an Azerbaijani human rights activist who serves as the director of Institute of Peace and Democracy, a human rights organisation. She is particularly known for her work helping citizens affected by forced evictions in Baku, on whose behalf she organized several small protests. In July 2014, the Azerbaijani authorities jailed Yunus under allegations of spying for Armenia, which are charges widely regarded as dubious. After being sentenced to 8.5 years in jail on 13 August 2015, Leyla Yunus was released on grounds of her deteriorating health on 9 December 2015, with a court converting her sentence into a suspended one.
Arif Yunus is an Azerbaijani author, historian, and human rights activist. He is the head of the Department of Conflict and Migration of the Institute of Peace and Democracy. After being detained, Arif Yunus was sentenced to 7 years in jail; his wife, Leyla Yunus, was sentenced to 8.5 years in jail on charges that include fraud and tax evasion.
Sabah FK is an Azerbaijani football club based in Baku.
