Miss Azerbaijan

Miss Azerbaijan
Motto Confidently Beautiful
Formation 1996
Type Beauty pageant
Headquarters Baku
Location
Membership
Miss Universe
Miss Intercontinental
Top Model of the World
Official language
Azerbaijani
National Director
 Anelya Orduhanova
Website Official website

Miss Azerbaijan is a national Beauty pageant in Azerbaijan.

History

National beauty contest “Miss Azerbaijan” is held in the country since 1996. Participation in a beauty contest “Miss Azerbaijan” is a great school and a brilliant chance for any beautiful girl. Based on this experience, many of winners and finalists of “Miss Azerbaijan” participated in international competitions and performed at various prestigious catwalks, became television announcers and advertising “persons” of many known firms and companies, opened a modeling and photo-agencies, established women’s magazines, websites etc. That is the reason why such project as the National Beauty Contest “Miss Azerbaijan” is highly demanded in our country, - it teaches society to value not only talent, but also a woman’s beauty.

Each year, before the beginning of the next contest, there established an Organizing Committee which involves representatives of the community and well-known media persons who voluntarily provide organizational support for the contest. The organizing committee is also working with various Mass Media, 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 we invite an independent jury consisting of representatives of culture and arts, show business and media, and sponsors who evaluate the finalists’ performance by 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 till 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 was 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 national titleholder for Miss Universe, Miss Intercontinental and Top Model of the World.

Titleholders

Color key
  •      Declared as Winner
  •      Ended as runner-up
  •      Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
YearMiss AzerbaijanCityNotes
1996 Narmina Zarbaliyeva[2] Baku Competed at the World's Best Model 1995 in Istanbul, Turkey.
1997 Gulsara Rzayeva Baku Did not compete
1999 Fatima Abbasguliyeva Baku Did not compete
2000 Valida Abasova Baku Did not compete
2001 Fatima Suleymanova Baku Did not compete
2002 Samira Rasulova Baku Did not compete
2003 Sabina Hashimova Baku Did not compete
2004 Olesya Sergeyeva Baku Competed at the Miss Intercontinental 2004 in Huhhot, China.
2005 Shovkat Gasimova Baku Did not compete
2006 Gunay Musayeva Baku Did not compete
2010 Gulnara Alimuradova[3] Baku Due to lack of sponsorship, withdrew at the Miss Universe 2010 in Las Vegas, U.S.A.
2012 Aysel Manafova Baku 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 Baku Competed at the Queen of the Universe 2015 in Spain as the 3rd Runner-up and Miss Photogenic Award Champion.
2015 Natalia Sokolovskaya Baku
2016 TBA TBA TBA

References

  1. 1 2 "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.

External links

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