Miss Azerbaijan

Miss and Mister Azerbaijan (or Miss Azərbaycan) is a national beauty pageant in Azerbaijan.

Miss / Mister Azərbaycan
MottoA Woman's and Mens Beauty, Culture and Inovasion
Formation1996
TypeBeauty pageant
HeadquartersBaku
Location
Membership
Miss Universe
Official language
Azerbaijani
National Director
Anelya Ordukhan
Websitemissmisterazerbaijan.az

History

The national beauty contest "Miss Azerbaijan" is held in the country since 1996. Each year, before the beginning of the next contest, an organizing committee which involves representatives of well-known media persons, voluntarily provide organizational support for the contest. The organizing committee is also working with various media organizations, photographers and photo studios, videographers, designers, freelancers, and the sponsors who provide their services to competition on mutually beneficial terms. 16 ladies are selected after casting and the qualifying round for the final selection. During the final round an independent jury consisting of representatives of culture and arts, show business and media, and sponsors, evaluate the finalists' performance by a 10-point system. According to the point calculation results, the main and sponsor nominations are distributed.

National Franchise

All the contests "Miss Azerbaijan" had been held by the license issued by the Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan until 2006. After 2006, under the new rules, the Ministry canceled the issuance of licenses for cultural events, including the contests.

Since 2013, Azerbaijan selected the winner for Miss Universe. Instead, the winner of Miss Azerbaijan 2012 participated at the event.[1] The first time the country participated in the pageant in Miss Universe 2013 on 9 November.[1] Aysel Manafova is the first Miss Universe Azerbaijan titleholder.

Nowadays Miss Azerbaijan becomes the national titleholder for Miss Universe, Miss Intercontinental and Top Model of the World. In 2020 Azerbaijan will return to Miss Universe with Banu Shujai

Titleholders
YearMiss AzərbaycanMister AzərbaycanNotes
1996 Narmina Zarbaliyeva[2] — Miss Azerbaijan competed at the World's Best Model 1995 in Istanbul, Turkey
1997 Gulsara Rzayeva —
1999 Fatima Abbasguliyeva —
2000 Valida Abasova —
2001 Fatima Suleymanova —
2002 Samira Rasulova —
2003 Sabina Hashimova —
2004 Olesya Sergeyeva — Miss Azerbaijan competed at the Miss Intercontinental 2004 in Huhhot, China
2005 Shovkat Gasimova —
2006 Gunay Musayeva —
2010 Gulnara Alimuradova[3] — Miss Azerbaijan withdrew, due to lack of sponsorship, to Miss Universe 2010
2012 Aysel Manafova — The first Miss Azerbaijan who competed at the Miss Universe 2013 in Moscow, Russia. She was appointed by Aras Agalarov, one of the main organizers of the pageant
2014 Javidan Gurbanova — Miss Azerbaijan placed as the Third Runner-up and Photogenic award at the Queen of the Universe 2015
2015 Natalia Sokolovskaya Elvin Mammadov
2016 Oksana Barkhatova[4] Parviz Khalilov
2017 Razi Aliyeva Ali Huseynov
2018 Narmina Hajiyeva Shakir Ahmadzade
2019 Samra Huseynova Nijat Alakbarli
2020 Banu Shujai Elçin Dadaşov TBA

References
  1. "Google Translate". google.com.ph. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  2. "Narmina Zarbaliyeva – Miss Baku". narod.ru. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  3. "Gulnara Alimuradova Miss Azerbaijan". Beauty Pageant News. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  4. "Oksana Barkhatova has been elected as Miss Azerbaijan 2016". thegreatpageantcommunity. 7 August 2016.
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