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Centenarians in Azerbaijan Heredity as Stored Environment
by Chingiz Gasimov, Ulduz Hashimova, Arif Abbasov, and Attiga Ismayilova
Left: Stamp issued in 1956 to commemorate the 148th birthday of the person believed to be the oldest citizen of the Soviet Union, Mahmud Eyvazov, from Azerbaijan. A collective farmer, he is shown here on the postcard surrounded by a group of "Pioneers." All Courtesy: Yakub Karimov.
Some of the oldest pe
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American-USSR Joint Research
Longevity in Azerbaijan has been studied at the Laboratory of Physiology and Longevity and at the Physiological Institute (Ethnographic Section) of the Academy of Sciences. A great impetus for the initial studies was an American-Soviet Program which began in 1977 under the leadership of Vera Rubin (Research of Institute of the Study of Man in New York City) who initiated cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary studies with particular focus on medical and socio-cultural factors. Americans initially started studying the Abkhasians, only to realize later that a higher incidence of longevity existed in Azerbaijan. These days, it is generally believed that Azerbaijanis have the highest level of longevity in the Caucasus. Plans for the joint program to carry out studies of longevity in Azerbaijan vanished when Rubin died in the 1980s. Unfortunately, nothing on such an internati
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Heredity - A Big Factor
Azerbaijanis credit their longevity to a combination of factors best described as the combination of heredity, environment, and psycho-socio-cultural patterns. They believe longevity basically is inherited; many people they studied confirmed that their parents, too, had lived long lives. Many of the longest lived people are those who have intermarried their own kinsmen-their cousins.
Environment plays a big role, too: the careful choice of diet from food grown on good soil in a good climate with particular attention to human beings' ability to adapt to the environment. The traditional social organization, including extended kinship inter-generational bonds contributes as it makes the transition of aging less stressful. Older people are highly esteemed in Azerbaijan and are given high positions in the family, community and greater society. The elderly are neve
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The Centenarians of Azerbaijan's Lerik Region Living Past 100 - "No Big Deal" in this Village
by Stephen Kinzer
©1998 The New York Times. Reprinted with permission. Published Sunday, March 15, 1998.
For more about the man alleged to have live the longest in the Soviet Union, read more about Shirali Muslimov
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Secrets of Longevity On Verdant Slopes of the Talysh Mountains
by Kathy Lally
Published in the Baltimore Sun (Maryland) on April 17, 2001. Copyright 2001, The Baltimore Sun Company
All photos: Algerina Perna, Associated Press.
PESHTA TUK, Azerbaijan - Mahbuba Fatullayeva drops to the floor with all the flexibility of a 12-year-old, sits cross-legged on her mat and waits patiently for the inevitable question to emerge from the gaggle of relatives and strangers c
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Azerbaijan's Legendary Centenarian Shirali Muslimov
Story by Marcus Hopkins Photos by Calman Caspiyev
Left: Shirali with his third wife. Right: Shirali credits his longevity to hard work. Here he was supposedly over 160-years-old. All photos
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ТАЛЫШИ
ТАЛЫШ‘И, толыш (самоназвание), народ на севере Ирана и на юго-востоке Азербайджана (в Ленкоранском, Лерикском, Астаринском, Масаллинском районах). В Азербайджане численность в 1926 - 77,3 тыс. человек. Впоследствии переписями не выделялись. По переписи 1989 - 21,2 тыс. человек, однако реально, видимо, больше. Многие Талыши записаны азербайджанца
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