Nigar Shikhlinskaya, born Nigar Huseyn Afandi gizi Gayibova in Tiflis, was the first Azerbaijani nurse. Sources give her birth as either 10 October 1871 or 21 March 1878, and she died in Baku on 15 August 1931. She was fluent in several languages, including Russian and French. During the First World War she served on the Western Front, where she opened a Red Cross hospital. On 1 August 1914 her appeal to women was published in the newspaper Russkiy Invalid, and she co-ran the Red Cross community established by officers' wives until 1918. Her uncertain birth year is recorded here as two sourced values rather than a guess between them.
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was the first Azerbaijani nurse
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October 10, 1871 or March 21, 1878
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August 15, 1931
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was the first Azerbaijani nurse
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served on the Western Front of World War I, where she opened the Red Cross hospital
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